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Porto Alegre

Brazil · 3 clinics · times shown in local time

Brazil: good to know

  • What visitors pay. Brazil's Ministry of Health says a foreign tourist with a health problem can also seek care in the urgent-care network of the public health system (SUS), including SAMU ambulances on 192 and 24-hour UPA units, and that these services are free. The page does not list any documents a tourist must show.
  • PEP in this country. The Ministry of Health says PEP is free through the SUS, must start within 72 hours and lasts 28 days. In April 2026 the city health department said PEP is available until 22:00 at Unidade de Saúde São Carlos (Av. Bento Gonçalves, 6670; 13:00–22:00) and at the Modelo (Av. Jerônimo de Ornelas, 55), Navegantes (Av. Presidente Franklin Roosevelt, 5) and Restinga (Rua Álvaro Difini, 520) district pharmacies (8:00–22:00); in regular hours at the SAE units, including SAE Santa Marta in the centre; and after 22:00 at the Lomba do Pinheiro, Cruzeiro do Sul and Bom Jesus emergency units and UPA Moacyr Scliar.

Emergency number: 192

3 clinics · sorted by name
  1. Ambulatório de Dermatologia Sanitária (ADS)
    Ambulatório de Dermatologia Sanitária, Secretaria Estadual da Saúde do RS
    Closed · opens 07:30 today
    PEP (after HIV exposure)

    The state's outpatient centre for STIs and HIV a short way south of the centre, home to Brazil's first testing and counselling centre, where the state says rapid testing and STI diagnosis run on a first-come basis at 9:00 and 14:00 on weekdays and PEP and PrEP are available.

    HIV test freeChecked Sep 2026
  2. CTA and SAE Santa Marta
    Centro de Testagem e Aconselhamento (CTA) e Serviço de Atendimento Especializado (SAE) Santa Marta
    Check hours with the clinic
    PEP (after HIV exposure)

    The city's testing centre and specialised HIV/STI service in the historic centre, which the health department says offers rapid STI tests, PEP, PrEP, HIV self-tests, free condoms and access to treatment, from 8:00 to 17:00.

    HIV test freeChecked Sep 2026
  3. Pronto Atendimento Cruzeiro do Sul
    Pronto Atendimento (PA) Cruzeiro do Sul
    Check hours with the clinic
    Visitors acceptedPEP (after HIV exposure)

    A municipal emergency unit south of the centre that the city health department names for PEP after 22:00, and the state lists for PEP at weekends and on holidays, when the daytime testing centres and pharmacies are closed.

    PEP (after HIV exposure) freeChecked Sep 2026

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