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HIV/STD Testing & Services

 

The only way to know your HIV status is to get tested. Knowing your HIV status gives you powerful information to keep you and your partner healthy. If your test result is positive, you can take medicine to treat HIV to help you live a long, healthy life and protect others. If your test result is negative, you can take actions to prevent HIV. People with certain risk factors should get tested more often. You should get tested at least once a year if

• You're a man who has had sex with another man.
• You've had anal or vaginal sex with someone who has HIV.
• You've had more than one sex partner since your last HIV test.
• You've shared needles, syringes, or other drug injection equipment (for example, cookers).
• You've exchanged sex for drugs or money.
• You've been diagnosed with or treated for another sexually transmitted infection, hepatitis, or tuberculosis (TB).
• You've had sex with someone who has done anything listed above or you don't know their sexual history.

HIV Self-Tests

Visit gettested.cdc.gov to see if any organizations in your area are offering free or reduced cost self-tests. You can also buy an HIV self-test at a pharmacy or online. A self-test can be used at home or in a private location. With an HIV self-test, you can get your test results within 20 minutes.

Mail-in HIV Tests

You or your health care provider can order a mail-in HIV test online and send the sample to a lab for testing. A mail-in HIV test is an antigen/antibody test that includes supplies to collect a small sample of blood from a finger stick.

Go to a Testing Location

If you get an HIV test in a health care setting or lab, the health care provider will take a sample of blood or oral fluid. With a rapid test (oral fluid or finger stick), you may be able to wait for the results. With a lab test, it may take several days for your results to be available.

New Jersey uses an FDA approved rapid HIV test. The FDA approved rapid HIV test checks the blood for HIV antibodies, the most common form of the HIV virus that causes AIDS.

If the test is negative, you don’t need to get further testing. If the rapid test yields a positive, you’ll need to get another test to confirm the result. The confirmatory test can be performed using blood, urine, or an oral specimen. A positive rapid test performed at a New Jersey publicly funded counseling and testing site will be confirmed through a blood test analyzed by the Public Health and Environmental Laboratory at the New Jersey Department of Health.

No HIV test can detect HIV immediately after infection. That's because of the window period—the time between HIV exposure and when a test can detect HIV in your body. People who have a positive rapid HIV test result are counseled that it is a preliminary result requiring a confirming test. On the other hand, if someone tests negative but was recently exposed to HIV, the result could be a false negative. The individual is counseled to get another test at after the window period for the test you took.

Dear Colleague Letter

A letter urging healthcare providers to implement routinized HIV testing

HIV Test and Treat Clinical Guidance

A Status Neutral Guide to Routinized HIV Testing for Health Care Professionals

For information from CDC on Status Neutral, visit:

cdc.gov/hiv/effective-interventions/prevent/status-neutral-hiv-prevention-and-care/index.html

For more information on Status Neutral, visit:

https://sexualbeing.org/get-involved/statusneutral