| Swedish personal identity number (format: YYYYMMDD-XXXX). | Personnummer | The key to full access to Swedish healthcare. Required for booking via 1177.se and for the medicine benefit scheme (Läkemedelsförmånen). Without it, phone booking and walk-in are alternatives. |
| Sweden's healthcare is organised by 21 regions. | Region | Each region manages its own healthcare system, so services vary by location. |
| primary care centre / GP surgery. | Vårdcentral | Your local first point of call for non-urgent healthcare. |
| GP (general practitioner). | Husläkare / Fastläkare | Your assigned primary care doctor. |
| referral. | Remiss | Required for some specialist appointments, but Venhälsan accepts direct self-referrals (egenremiss) — you do not need a GP to refer you there. |
| the national healthcare website (1177.se) and telephone advice line. | 1177 | Booking, advice, and health information. Requires BankID for full online functionality; phone line is open 24 hours. |
| Sweden's electronic identity system, used for 1177.se bookings and many other services. | BankID | Linked to Personnummer; visitors without one must use phone booking. |
| the Communicable Diseases Act. | Smittskyddslagen | The law that makes testing and treatment for HIV, gonorrhoea, chlamydia, syphilis, and other listed diseases completely free — no patient fee (patientavgift). This is arguably the most important piece of healthcare law for gay and bisexual men in Sweden. |
| "general hazardous disease" — the classification under Smittskyddslagen that triggers free care. | Allmänfarlig sjukdom | HIV, syphilis, gonorrhoea, chlamydia, hepatitis, and others are classified this way. |
| patient fee (the standard co-pay for Swedish healthcare visits). | Patientavgift | Does not apply to care classified under Smittskyddslagen. |
| medicine benefit scheme. | Läkemedelsförmånen | Caps your annual prescription medication costs at approximately 2,900 SEK. PrEP counts toward this cap. |
| pharmacy / chemist. | Apotek | Where you collect prescriptions. |
| emergency department / A&E. | Akuten / Akutmottagning | |
| infectious disease emergency department. | Infektionsakuten | Where to go for PEP. |
| infectious disease outpatient clinic. | Infektionsmottagning | Where PrEP is managed outside Stockholm. |
| sexual health clinic. | Sesam mottagning / STI-mottagning | |