Why this site exists

It took one of us the better part of a year to work out what PrEP is and where to get it in Bulgaria.

Not because the information did not exist. It did — in a 2019 PDF on a site nobody has touched since; in one sentence buried in a leaflet; in a Facebook group reply with no way to tell whether it was still true. It took a year because it was scattered, undated, and written for somebody else — for a donor, for a report, for a project.

That HIV, treated, becomes untransmittable took longer still. And that life simply carries on.

What was missing

There was no single place that:

• says when it was last checked. A phone number that no longer works is worse than no phone number. Every page here carries the date it was verified and the source it came from.
• does not pretend. Bulgaria has no 24-hour psychological helpline for adults. There isn’t one. The crisis page says so, because it is better to learn that now than at three in the morning.
• wants nothing from you. No account, no cookies, no analytics. Nobody finds out you were here — and that is checkable, not a promise.
• speaks Bulgarian. Not translated from English. Written for someone who lives here, whose relatives say exactly these things.

What this is

Thirty-eight pages about the three things nobody explained to us: mental health, sexual health, and HIV and PrEP. Plus your rights, the organisations that actually help, and the reminder that people like us have always been here.

Every number, every address, every medical claim is verified against a primary source — usually the organisation’s own site or an official ministry page — and carries that source. Where something could not be confirmed, the page says so instead of guessing.

This is not a medical institution and not a crisis service. It is not an organisation either — yet. It is the thing we needed and could not find, so we built it.

If you spot an error

Tell us. A wrong crisis-line number is not a bug, it is a catastrophe — and we would rather hear it from you than not hear it.

Accuracy is the whole product.