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They soon realized that vulnerable groups that are most affected by HIV, such as men having sex with men (MSM), sex workers, trans people, people who use drugs, and migrants, need tailored HIV services, and they started to build these programs for them. Today, GAT has one of the biggest reaches of key populations in Portugal, with 100 thousand HIV tests conducted annually.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;<em>GAT has several testing sites, all adapted more or less for key populations. All the sites are open to everyone but are built and offer services more tailored to key populations<\/em>.&#8221; Said <strong>Mariana Vicente<\/strong>, general director of services and projects at GAT.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Moreover, these services employ peers, people with lived experiences, as their key staff. &#8220;<em>Peers are people who share something in common with the people we support, either because they live with the infection or belong to a vulnerable group we support. It is often the peers who bring people to the interventions and can also be the link between people and different services.<\/em>&#8221; Explained to us by <strong>Joana Assun\u00e7\u00e3o,<\/strong> a peer social worker at GAT.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gatportugal.org\/servicos\/gat-checkpoint-lx_4\"> GAT Checkpoint LX<\/a>, which is a free, confidential testing service for HIV and other STIs among men who have sex with men, all the staff are MSM. &#8220;<em>For me, it&#8217;s really important to know that I&#8217;m contributing to the health of my community. Community-based centers are as good and as efficient as health services with doctors and nurses. 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They count on GAT<\/em> <em>and other organizations in Portugal to do the rapid tests to have these community-based<\/em> <em>centers, <\/em>&#8221; said <strong>Luis Ver\u00edssimo<\/strong>, coordinator at GAT Checkpoint LX.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;<em>The community also wants to define the rules and how the service works,<\/em>&#8221; told <strong>Maria Lu\u00edsa Salazar<\/strong>, co-coordinator at<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gatportugal.org\/servicos\/gat-in-mouraria_18\"> GAT IN Mouraria<\/a>, the second service we visited. GAT IN Mouraria is a community-based harm reduction drop-in center that opened in 2013. They provide anonymous testing of HIV, hepatitis B, hepatitis C, and syphilis; condoms; sterile drug consumption materials (needles and syringes, crack pipes, etc.); peer counseling; health care support by nurses and doctors; referral and escort to various health care and social facilities. On average, 70-80 people enter the drop-in center daily, where they can relax in a stress-free environment, eat, use the internet, charge their phones, and receive their mail, which is also a very important service for those without a home.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>GAT IN Mouraria also has a<a href=\"https:\/\/drogriporter.hu\/en\/drug-consumption-rooms-around-the-world-1\/\"> drug consumption room<\/a> that has operated for years as a semi-legal site. It is now running fully legally and is managed by peers. &#8220;<em>Maria do Ros\u00e1rio, our peer, she&#8217;s the one who usually leads the injection part. And the injection spot is a very intimate space. We have a curtain here, and people, while they are preparing the substance and injecting, are sharing so many things, and it&#8217;s a very special moment of the day. 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