Showing posts with label HIV Testing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label HIV Testing. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 1, 2014

Free STI & HIV Testing Today at The Denver Element

Head on down to The Denver ELEMENT at 655 Broadway, Suite 425 today for free STI and HIV testing!

Tuesday, February 18, 2014

BeTested.co, Free HIV Testing For Gay Men in the Denver-Metro Area

There are more than a dozen free testing sites for HIV and STDs located in community and commercial venues throughout the Denver-Metro area. Regardless of where you happen to be when you'd like to get tested, BeTested.co can help locate a convenient location for you.

Monday, February 3, 2014

Check out BeTested.co for Free HIV Testing in the Denver-Metro Area!

There are more than a dozen free testing sites for HIV and STDs located in community and commercial venues throughout the Denver-Metro area. Regardless of where you happen to be when you'd like to get tested, BeTested.co can help locate a convenient location for you.

Tuesday, January 28, 2014

BeTested.co: Free HIV Testing For Gay Men in Denver

There are more than a dozen free testing sites for HIV and STDs located in community and commercial venues throughout the Denver-Metro area. Regardless of where you happen to be when you'd like to get tested, BeTested.co can help locate a convenient location for you.

Monday, January 20, 2014

BeTested.co: Free HIV Testing For Denver Gay Men

There are more than a dozen free testing sites for HIV and STDs located in community and commercial venues throughout the Denver-Metro area. Regardless of where you happen to be when you'd like to get tested, BeTested.co can help locate a convenient location for you.

Wednesday, January 15, 2014

BeTested.co: Free HIV Testing For Denver Gay Men

There are more than a dozen free testing sites for HIV and STDs located in community and commercial venues throughout the Denver-Metro area. Regardless of where you happen to be when you'd like to get tested, BeTested.co can help locate a convenient location for you.

Monday, January 6, 2014

BeTested.co: Free HIV Testing For Denver Gay Men

There are more than a dozen free testing sites for HIV and STDs located in community and commercial venues throughout the Denver-Metro area. Regardless of where you happen to be when you'd like to get tested, BeTested.co can help locate a convenient location for you.

Friday, December 6, 2013

BeTested.co: Find a Free HIV Testing Site in Denver

There are more than a dozen free testing sites for HIV and STDs located in community and commercial venues throughout the Denver-Metro area. Regardless of where you happen to be when you'd like to get tested, BeTested.co can help locate a convenient location for you.

Monday, December 2, 2013

BeTested.co: Find a Free HIV Testing Site in Denver

There are more than a dozen free testing sites for HIV and STDs located in community and commercial venues throughout the Denver-Metro area. Regardless of where you happen to be when you'd like to get tested, BeTested.co can help locate a convenient location for you.

Wednesday, November 27, 2013

BeTested.co: Find a Free HIV Testing Site in the Denver Metropolitan Area

There are more than a dozen free testing sites for HIV and STDs located in community and commercial venues throughout the Denver-Metro area. Regardless of where you happen to be when you'd like to get tested, BeTested.co can help locate a convenient location for you.

Monday, October 21, 2013

BeTested.co: Find a Free HIV Testing Site in the Denver Metropolitan Area

There are more than a dozen free testing sites for HIV and STDs located in community and commercial venues throughout the Denver-Metro area. Regardless of where you happen to be when you'd like to get tested, BeTested.co can help locate a convenient location for you.

Saturday, September 7, 2013

BeTested.co: Find a Free HIV Testing Site in the Denver Metropolitan Area

There are more than a dozen free testing sites for HIV and STDs located in community and commercial venues throughout the Denver-Metro area. Regardless of where you happen to be when you'd like to get tested, BeTested.co can help locate a convenient location for you.

Tuesday, August 27, 2013

BeTested.co: Find a Free HIV Testing Site in the Denver Metropolitan Area

There are more than a dozen free testing sites for HIV and STDs located in community and commercial venues throughout the Denver-Metro area. Regardless of where you happen to be when you'd like to get tested, BeTested.co can help locate a convenient location for you.

Tuesday, August 13, 2013

BeTested.co: Find a Free HIV Testing Site in the Denver Metropolitan Area

There are more than a dozen free testing sites for HIV and STDs located in community and commercial venues throughout the Denver-Metro area. Regardless of where you happen to be when you'd like to get tested, BeTested.co can help locate a convenient location for you.

Friday, July 12, 2013

BeTested.co: Find a Free HIV Testing Site in the Denver Metropolitan Area

There are more than a dozen free testing sites for HIV and STDs located in community and commercial venues throughout the Denver-Metro area. Regardless of where you happen to be when you'd like to get tested, BeTested.co can help locate a convenient location for you.

Friday, July 5, 2013

BeTested.co: Find a Free HIV Testing Site in the Denver Metropolitan Area

There are more than a dozen free testing sites for HIV and STDs located in community and commercial venues throughout the Denver-Metro area. Regardless of where you happen to be when you'd like to get tested, BeTested.co can help locate a convenient location for you.

Monday, July 9, 2012

FDA approves first over-the-counter home use HIV test kit

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the OraQuick In-Home HIV Test, the first over-the-counter, self-administered HIV test kit to detect the presence of antibodies to human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) and type 2 (HIV-2). HIV is the virus that causes acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS).

The OraQuick In-Home HIV Test is designed to allow individuals to collect an oral fluid sample by swabbing the upper and lower gums inside of their mouths, then place that sample into a developer vial, and obtain test results within 20 to 40 minutes. A positive result with this test does not mean that an individual is definitely infected with HIV, but rather that additional testing should be done in a medical setting to confirm the test result.

Similarly, a negative test result does not mean that an individual is definitely not infected with HIV, particularly when exposure may have been within the previous three months. The test has the potential to identify large numbers of previously undiagnosed HIV infections, especially if used by those unlikely to use standard screening methods.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 1.2 million people in the United States are living with HIV infection. About one in five are not aware they are infected. There are about 50,000 new HIV infections every year. Many of these new infections are transmitted from people who are unaware of their HIV status.

"Knowing your status is an important factor in the effort to prevent the spread of HIV,” said Karen Midthun, M.D., director of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research. “The availability of a home-use HIV test kit provides another option for individuals to get tested so that they can seek medical care, if appropriate.”

Clinical studies for self-testing have shown that the OraQuick In-Home HIV Test has an expected performance of 92 percent for test sensitivity, the percentage of results that will be positive when HIV is present. This means that one false negative result would be expected out of every 12 test results in HIV-infected individuals.

Clinical studies also have shown that the OraQuick In-Home HIV Test has an expected performance of 99.98 percent for test specificity, the percentage of results that will be negative when HIV is not present. This means that one false positive would be expected out of every 5,000 test results in uninfected individuals.

OraSure Technologies, the manufacturer of the OraQuick In-Home HIV Test will have a consumer support center that is available via phone and will be open 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The center will be operational and available to educate users with information about HIV/AIDS, the proper method for administering the test and guidance on what to do once results have been obtained once the manufacturer makes the product available for sale to the public. Information about the consumer support center and contact information is included in the test kit.

Monday, December 12, 2011

Friday, October 8, 2010

MileHighGayGuy Advertiser Shout Out: Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains

Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains provides services for gay men in the Denver metro area including STD Testing and Treatment, HIV Testing and Education, Prostate and Testicular Cancer Screenings, and Education and Referrals.

Monday, October 4, 2010

Hey Denver! A conversation with Matt Fisher about the importance of HIV testing

Hey Denver provides free and confidential sexual health services and STD testing for gay men by gay, sex positive counselors. Testing is available most days of the week at their headquarters just off of 17th Avenue in Denver's gay district near Hamburger Mary's, JR's, and the Wrangler.
 
Hey Denver's mission, according to their website, is to "help men who have sex with men have healthy and fulfilling sex lives." 


Matt Fisher is the prevention coordinator for Hey Denver and I recently had the chance to sit down with him and ask him a few questions about the importance of getting tested and what sets Hey Denver apart from other sexual health organizations in town.



Drew: So Matt, as prevention coordinator of Hey Denver, what exactly is it you do?
Matt: Well, I schedule and run most of the testing here and I also work with Denver Health to do STD testing with them as well.

What purpose does Hey Denver serve? 
I feel like Hey Denver kind of meets a need for the gay community in Denver that’s been needed for awhile. So many of us have had bad experiences with being tested or have been made to feel ashamed of our sexual practices or our HIV status. Hey Denver works hard to not only provide testing but to have conversations that are positive and encouraging and we don’t judge people on their sexual practices because the only important thing is finding out your status.

Positive or negative - why is it important to get tested and find out your status?
It’s important to know because if you are negative, you can make choices that will help you stay that way and if you are positive, the longer you go without knowing, the worse it is for your health. And of course there’s the possibility that you could also be spreading HIV to others.


How is Hey Denver different from the other testing sites?
We’re really trying hard to be different from some of the other testing sites. We want to support you. We are not judgmental. If you’ve had an incident that you don’t want to talk about or something that you might be embarrassed about, you can come here. We're free and we're confidential. Give us a try.