Testing

By Roger Pebody
21 May 2024
1 minutes

Easy-to-read and illustrated information on HIV testing in the UK.

HIV testing in the UK is free, voluntary and confidential. You can be tested at a sexual health clinic, a GP surgery, community testing project or at home using a self-test.

Depending on which type of test is used, the result will be available within a few minutes or within two weeks.

When all the necessary tests have been done, the result will be HIV negative (you don't have HIV) or HIV positive (you have HIV).

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Roger Pebody

Commissioning Editor

Roger joined aidsmap in 2008 and was Managing Editor from 2018 to 2024. As a freelancer, he now edits aidsmap’s news and conference coverage, as well as working on updates to About HIV pages. He is also a contributing science editor for TheBodyPro, a freelance journalist for The Lancet HIV, and a medical writer helping researchers prepare articles for peer-reviewed journals. He began working on HIV at Gay Men Fighting AIDS in the mid-1990s.