Home HIV Test Procedure

Video Transcript

"One of the advantages of this particular home test is it's designed to be an anonymous way of testing meaning that your name and personal information never exchanges with the laboratory administering the test and there's no record of your result attached to your name. That would also be true if you were to have an HIV or other STD test done at a public health facility and could possibly be true if you had it done at your doctor's office but generally it's assumed your comfortable enough with your own doctor for you to be comfortable with your doctor knowing whether or not you are HIV positive or HIV negative. The testing procedure is fairly simple. According to this test the first thing we're going to do is call and register the home access code that's attached to this test. It's an eleven digit number and that links you to your testing kit anonymously. So when the sample comes in they know at least your phone number attaches to that eleven digit code. The next thing we'll be doing is collecting a blood spot sample using the finger stick method and I'll take you through that and once we're done with that we're going to prepare the sample for shipment to the testing company and we did buy an express kit which means we can obtain our results within 48 hours and if your negative, if your test result comes back negative you have up to thirty days to collect it and if it comes back positive or indeterminate those results are available for one year. One of the biggest flaws in HIV aids testing is the simple fact that people don't collect their results. "