Know your status, take pride in knowing

The only way to know your HIV status is by getting tested. No matter the results, knowing your status can help you move forward by taking steps to help protect yourself and your partners.

Learn more below and talk to your healthcare provider.

The only way to know your HIV status is by getting tested. No matter the results, knowing your status can help you move forward by taking steps to help protect yourself and your partners.

Learn more below and talk to your healthcare provider.

The only way to know if you have HIV is to get tested

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Get tested for HIV

Find an HIV testing location near you.
It’s confidential, and may be free.

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Prefer to test at home?

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) covers the cost of an at‑home HIV testing kit.

1 in 7

People living with HIV
doesn’t know it

Nearly 40%

Of new HIV infections are
transmitted by people who don’t know they have it

Who should get tested? Everyone.

According to the CDC, everyone between the ages of 13 and 64 should get tested for HIV at least once, especially people who are sexually active.

If you have never been tested, now’s the time!

At the top of this page, you can find links to a testing location near you.

According to the CDC, everyone between the ages of 13 and 64 should get tested for HIV at least once, especially people who are sexually active.

If you have never been tested, now’s the time!

At the top of this page, you can find links to a testing location near you.

How often should you get tested?

Everyone between the ages of 13 and 64 should get tested for HIV at least once.

Just getting tested once may not be enough, though. National guidelines from the CDC and other groups recommend retesting at least once a year for anyone at higher risk for getting HIV, including:

  • Men who have sex with men (MSM)
  • People with more than 1 sexual partner
  • Transgender people who have sex with men
  • People who have recently had a sexually transmitted infection (STI)
  • People who use injection drugs

The CDC also suggests regular retesting for sexually active gay and bisexual men (about every 3 to 6 months).

You should also talk to a healthcare provider and get tested or retested if you are pregnant or plan to become pregnant.

Your sexual network may also put you at a higher risk for HIV.

It’s important to know your HIV status

While there is no cure for HIV, it is a chronic condition with many treatment options.
Treatment can help people with HIV live longer, healthier lives.

  • Only by taking a test can you know what HIV prevention or treatment options you may need
    • If you are living with HIV, talk to a healthcare provider about treatment options. Starting and staying on treatment can help you live a longer, healthier life
    • If you do not have HIV, you can stay that way. Use condoms and practice safe sex to protect yourself and others. Talk to your partners about their test results as well. Never share needles. Get retested regularly and ask a healthcare provider about the ways you can help to prevent HIV

Know if you are at higher risk for HIV.

Get tested regularly.

Take pride in knowing your status.