HIV Testing
Test taking is not easy for any of us. HIV testing isn’t necessarily a test that everyone wants to take but it is one of the best choices you could make towards taking care of your sexual health. Everyone should know their HIV status.
How Does The Test Work?
When someone gets infected with HIV, the body starts producing antibodies. HIV tests look for these antibodies. In some cases it can take one to three months for these antibodies to show up on the test.
What Kind of Test Do We Offer?
CAMPsafe is currently using the UNI-GOLD rapid HIV test. This test uses a small amount of blood collected from a finger stick. You will get your results in 10 minutes!
How Much Does the Test Cost?
It's FREE!!!
I Want a Test. How Can I Get One?
You call us at 302-227-5620 to make an appointment or just walk in to our offices which are located at 37 Baltimore Avenue in Rehoboth Beach. We are able to do HIV testing before 9am and after 5pm – this includes the weekends. You make the call – we will take care of the rest.
Why Should I Consider Getting Tested?
- You have met someone, and you want to have sex without condoms.
- Getting tested to ensure that you both have the same HIV status can stop you from worrying about whether either person is infecting the other. Trust me, this will add to the fun you can have. But getting this knowledge shouldn't just happen when you start to have sex without condoms. For knowledge to be current, you will need to be re-tested if you put yourself at risk of exposure with someone other than your partner.
- If you don't have the same HIV status, you have more information to help you decide whether or not you still want to have sex without condoms.
You believe that you may be positive.
If you are HIV positive, an HIV test is not what makes you positive, it only gives you knowledge that can help you deal with being positive. A test can act as a way to help deal with your HIV status and help you focus on what you want to do in the future to keep yourself healthy.
Your motivation for safer sex is slipping.
Not having definite knowledge about ones HIV status isn't a problem for most people (that's why lots of us don't get tested) and most negative men practice safer sex because they don't want to become HIV positive (no great surprise there). Some of us though, may have sex without condoms. The knowledge that you are HIV negative can help motivate you to make sure that you do the things that keep you negative. |