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High-resLast year, Planned Parenthood health centers provided more than 4.7 million STD tests and treatments, including more than 740,000 HIV tests. We’re proud to provide affordable, convenient HIV testing and sexual health information for all people — no matter what.
High-resIt’s National HIV Testing Day!
Getting tested is a basic part of being healthy — and it’s quick, easy, and painless. The sooner you know your status, the sooner you can get treatment.
Every day is a good day to take care of your sexual health, but June 27th is all about HIV testing. In honor of National HIV Testing Day, we created e-cards to help you spread the word and remind the people you care about most to get tested and know their status.
So why is HIV testing so important?
Most people with HIV don’t show symptoms for many years, but they can still transmit the virus to others.
About 1 in 6 people living with HIV don’t know they have it.
HIV is treatable. The sooner you know your status, the sooner you can take action to stay as healthy as possible and protect your partners.
Here’s the best part: HIV testing can be super quick, simple, and painless. Rapid HIV tests get you results in about 20 minutes, often with just a cheek swab.
You can get tested at your doctor’s office, community health centers, and Planned Parenthood — we do about 700,000 HIV tests a year, so we’re pretty good at it by now.
Finally, as always, don’t forget about protection! When it comes to HIV, putting a condom on before you get it on makes sex 10,000 times safer — and condoms are the only form of birth control that also prevents HIV and other STDs.
