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HIV Prevention Project
The only way to know your HIV status is to get tested. Knowing your status gives you powerful information to keep you and your partner(s) healthy. Testing is FREE and CONFIDENTIAL. The calendar below lists events and testing locations for our HIV Prevention Project teams.
There are many options for quick, free, and painless HIV testing. 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.
Getting Tested for HIV
CDC recommends that everyone between the ages of 13 and 64 get tested for HIV at least once as part of routine health care and, more often, if you are at an increased risk for getting HIV.
People with certain risk factors should get tested more often, at least once a year:
- 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.
Even if both you and your partner are having sex only with each other, you should both find out your HIV status.
Prevention
Today, more tools than ever are available to prevent HIV.
Prevention strategies include:
- Using condoms the right way every time you have sex.
- Never sharing needles, syringes, or other drug injection equipment.
- Using PrEP, (pre-exposure prophylaxis) is highly effective at preventing HIV if taken as prescribed. PREP is for people who are HIV-negative and at risk of getting HIV.
- If you have HIV, there are many ways to prevent transmitting HIV to others, including taking HIV treatment to get and keep an undetectable viral load.
- The HIV Prevention Project offers free, confidential testing and counseling. Check out the calendar below for dates and locations where you can find our services.
For FREE and CONFIDENTIAL testing and more information, contact the Accordia Health HIV Prevention Project:
888-216-7HIV (448) or PreventHIV@AccordiaHealth.org
