Lafa – Unit for Sexuality and Health is part of the Stockholm County Council. The job of Lafa is to prevent HIV, sexually transmitted infections and unwanted pregnancies from a health-promoting perspective.

Lafa is a method and knowledge centre for people who work with sexuality and health in the county of Stockholm in schools, with youth clubs and youth clinics, in caring professions and within non-governmental organisations, to name but a few examples. Lafa also works directly to focus on its target groups by means of websites, advertising campaigns and taking part in exhibitions and festivals.  Lafa’s target groups are young people/young adults, men who have sex with men, immigrants and refugees and primary care patients.

Services offered by Lafa include:

• Educational programme offering courses and seminars


• Method material containing facts and methods for work on sexuality and personal relationships.
  One of the method books, Röda Tråden, is also available in English (The Main Thread) and Russian (Krasnaja Nit) free of charge as PDF. 


• Insikt (Insight) magazine aimed at everyone working with sexuality and health and discusses important subjects and topical issues.


• Free condoms for young people distributed at schools, youth clinics and youth clubs


• Lusthuset information centre offering books and magazines for loan


• Brochures, reports and information


• Statistics on births and abortions


• Mentoring and support

Contact Lafa

Lafa
Box 175 33
SE-118 91 Stockholm
Sweden

Telephone: +46 8 737 35 50 Fax: +46 8 737 36 40

E-mail: info@lafa.nu