Are HIV home test kits accurate.

The simple answer is yes, extremely. The HIV home test kits supplied today by companies such as Head Start Testing detect the bodies HIV ant-bodies. These can only be produced as a reaction to the HIV virus. The home HIV test kits also have a “failed test” indicator that will ensure that there is no confusion between a failed test and an actual test result. The HIV home test kits are > 99% accurate and can give you  your HIV result in less than 5 minutes. They are produced under ISO and GMP standards in a certified manufacturing plant.  Each HIV home test kit contains clear and simple to follow instructions. If you are worried about HIV symptoms or your previous sexual history may have exposed you to the HIV virus then you should test immediately. Either contact your GP or local STD testing center of purchase HIV self-test kits from Head Start testing.

Apart from practicing safe sex, early detection is the most valuable weapon against the spread of HIV. More testing saves lives.

HIV Self-testing, what about counselling.

Many individuals choose to self-test for HIV with a HIV home test kit from Head Start Testing. By doing so they are of course electing to go through the testing process without the benefit of an experienced counsellor. For many this is a sacrifice they are willing to make in exchange for faster and more private and convenient HIV testing. For others it is a concern. If you are considering HIV self-testing through Head Start testing or any other online supplier of HIV home test kits than please visit http://napwa.org.au/services for details of the services available to you within the HIV landscape. There are numerous pre testing and post testing services that can be beneficial beyond of course the specific medical advise you will require in the event of a positive result.

can’t sleep? anxiety is mounting? Did that prostitute look like she had HIV?

Worried about HIV status. Here is a common path, with 3 possible outcomes in Australia.

You realise that stupidly you have put yourself at risk of HIV infection. Possibly you are married or in a relationship and this risk was outside that relationship. Privacy is critical for you and seems to be overriding the common sense argument, which is simply to get tested, get tested now. Maybe you just feel embarrassed admitting this to anyone, even your doctor.

 

Previously, in fact just a few years ago in Australia you had two options. Sadly only two and as a result, tragically many chose option two.

Option 1. Chin up, walk into your doctor or STD clinic and explain your worry about HIV, take the test, wait a day or a few days for the result.

Option 2. Do nothing. Delay testing in the hope that something you know not to make sense will happen, or just time will somehow reduce the gravity of the reality you face. As crazy as this sounds, this is an option many took, It resulted in them, knowing they had potentially been exposed, yet continuing life (including sex) as if they had not.

Fortunately we have option 3.

Purchase a HIV home test kit from www.HeadStartTesting.com and test  yourself for HIV in privacy at your own convenience. Nobody will argue that this does not have the down side of no medical assistance and no counselling. But given that option 2 not testing fro HIV was the only alternate to option 1. It is infinitely better than that. More HIV testing saves lives.