National HIV Testing Day - 27 June

[+ Avalon]

https://aidsinfo.nih.gov/understanding-hiv-aids/hiv-aids-awareness-days/163/national-hiv-testing-day

[+ BenjaminNicholas]

Know your status.

 

Nowadays, there's no excuse not to protect yourself and others.

[marylander1940]

 

If we had kept using condoms in the 90's and turn of the century now with PrEP HIV would be history...

[MassageDrew]

Who comes up with these National Whatever Days? But if I knew ahead of time I would’ve done it today. Had it done two days ago when I went for a full physical. My doctor was on vacay so I ended up dealing with her assistant. I provided urine sample for the gonorrhea/chlamydia and blood sample for everything else. But she said let’s do the swab too for the gonorrhea. I went along with it but was the urine enough? I feel like the swab is a bit of an overkill.

[+ sniper]

 

If we had kept using condoms in the 90's and turn of the century now with PrEP HIV would be history...

 

While I think we didn't use enough condoms, it seems there were quite a few more long-term HIV+ survivors than initially assumed. (They used to think it was like 2 years from infection to death and turned out even without meds that wasn't true for quite a few people) and critical mass had already been reached by then. The horse was already out of the barn.

[+ BenjaminNicholas]

Who comes up with these National Whatever Days? But if I knew ahead of time I would’ve done it today. Had it done two days ago when I went for a full physical. My doctor was on vacay so I ended up dealing with her assistant. I provided urine sample for the gonorrhea/chlamydia and blood sample for everything else. But she said let’s do the swab too for the gonorrhea. I went along with it but was the urine enough? I feel like the swab is a bit of an overkill.

 

Your doc's job is to keep you safe... Let them do their job.

 

Better overkill than the alternative