{"id":211,"date":"2018-09-18T10:00:44","date_gmt":"2018-09-18T10:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i-base.info\/qa\/?p=211"},"modified":"2024-10-14T09:19:24","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T09:19:24","slug":"where-can-i-test-for-hiv-in-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/211","title":{"rendered":"Where can I test for HIV in the UK?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bristish Association for Sexual Health and HIV (BASHH)home page lets you search for\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bashh.org\">sexual health clinics <\/a>by postcode. These services are all in confidence.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bashh.org\">www.bashh.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The receptionist at your GP can also tell you your local clinic without you having to give your name.<\/p>\n<p>Your symptoms do not sound like HIV, but can easily from worry or stress.<\/p>\n<p>It is easy to test. As the potential exposure was more than 3 months ago, the test will be very accurate.<\/p>\n<p><em>Updated in September 2018 from a question first answered in November 2007.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had unprotected sex in July.  About mid October (96 days after) I started a cold which is still now lingering on my chest &#8211; and it &#8216;feels&#8217; different to a normal cold more like bronchitis. I don&#8217;t have a fever or rash or any other symptoms. However I am sleeping very poorly and am breaking out in cold sweats during the day which I think is as much down to worry as anything else.  I am married with a family and obviously beside myself with worry if I have contracted HIV.<\/p>\n<p>Is the occurance of this cold within or outside of the likely timeline for initial symptoms to occur?<\/p>\n<p>How much am I confusing my worry with the genuine symptoms?<\/p>\n<p>I know the only way to find out is to have a test.  Is there anywhere I can go confidentially beside my local GP?<\/p>\n<p>Thank you<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,22,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-hiv-testing","category-hiv-transmission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24216,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions\/24216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}