Confidential HIV testing is done in the Nurse's Clinic at SHS on a walk in basis Mon-Fri 8-11:30am, except Wed 9-11:30am and every afternoon from 2:00-3:30pm. Check in at the front Registration desk and request "Counseling". This testing is confidential and the results are not released without your specific written consent. Confidential HIV testing is free for students enrolled in SHIP, and $17.79 for those without SHIP.

Anonymous antibody testing services are those which no name is give. Only the person getting tested can reveal his/her results to anyone. Confidential antibody testing services record the person's name with the test result. Records are kept secret from everyone except medical personnel or, or in some states like Minnesota, the state health department*. Individuals should ask who will know the results and how the record will be stored.

There is an important difference between confidential and anonymous testing for HIV. Confidential testing is a good option for people who need an official copy of their test result with their name on it. Confidential test results become part of your medical records, which can be released only with your written permission. Anonymous testing leaves no paper trail. When you have an anonymous test, you are known only by number, and the only person who learns the results is you. -back to top

Anonymous unlinked HIV testing is a form of testing used worldwide for research and surveillance purposes, most commonly among pregnant women. Blood samples taken routinely for other tests are additionally tested for HIV. No personal information is taken and there is no way of linking the test results back to the person being tested. The results have no direct individual use but can provide important information for estimating HIV prevalence and incidence.

Confidential testing means that the results of any HIV test performed will not be revealed to anybody except designated clinic staff, and in some cases, specific public health officials. Confidential testing will usually require a person to give their details (name, age, address) to the clinic performing the test. They then have to contact or return to the clinic after to get the results (unless a rapid test is used).

Anonymous and Confidential use the same testing method. The only difference is one does not have your name attached to the results. Anonymous antibody testing is available at Anonymous Test Sites in some California counties. Anonymous testing means that absolutely no one has access to your test results since your name is never recorded at the test site. It is always a good idea to contact the testing clinic directly to confirm what type of test is available.

Anonymous testing means that your name cannot be connected to the fact that you have had an HIV test or the results. Often, people being tested are assigned numbers instead. RUHS does NOT do anonymous testing. Robert Wood Johnson does. They may be contacted at (732) 235-7114. Confidential testing means that your name can be connected to your test and the results, but are part of your confidential medical record which only your medical provider can access.

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HIV testing can be done at any good laboratory in nursing homes, private hospitals, government hospitals, and district hospitals. It is important that before one does a HIV test, they go through counseling before the test as it prepares one for the HIV result and further management. Counseling should also be done after the result of the HIV test is known for interpretation of the test result and planning further action. HIV/AIDS doesn't spread by mosquito bites.

I - Immuno-deficiency: because the effect of the virus is to create a deficiency, a failure to work properly, within the body's immune system. V - Virus: because this organism is a virus, which means one of its characteristics is that it is incapable of reproducing by itself. It reproduces by taking over the machinery of the human cell.

The laboratory consists of a waiting room and several small specimen collection rooms. When you arrive at the laboratory, indicate to the lab staff at the front desk that a medical order has been faxed in for you with your name or code name on it (depending how you set up your test). If there are other customers around, rest assured that no one knows which test you are taking except the laboratory staff. The lab collects specimens for 100's of types of tests at each of their collection centers.

New Jersey law does not specifically address whether parental consent is needed for a person under the age of 18 to get an HIV test. N.J.S.A. 9:17A-4 assures that a person under age 18 can be tested for a sexually transmitted infection without parental consent if they have any reason to think they might be infected. Because of the ambiguity concerning the law’s application to HIV, some health care providers will test for HIV without parental consent while others will not.

If you have a anonymous account, you may have a regular account or vice versa. However, you are only allow _one_ anonymous account and _one_ regular account based on your name. You are not allowed to have an account "for a friend". Have your friend get their own account.

Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) is the virus that causes AIDS. HIV is a viral STD, which means there are no cures for this infection. Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) ? acquired means that this disease is not hereditary, but develops when in contact with HIV. Immunodeficiency means that the disease is characterized by a weakening of the immune system. HIV destroys a certain kind of blood cells (CD4+ T cells), which is crucial to the normal function of the human immune system.

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