{"id":484,"date":"2008-05-30T14:17:30","date_gmt":"2008-05-30T13:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i-base.info\/qa\/?p=484"},"modified":"2024-10-14T09:16:10","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T09:16:10","slug":"can-i-test-for-hiv-at-home-in-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/484","title":{"rendered":"Can I test for HIV at home in the UK?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are two types of home tests for a range of infections including HIV:<\/p>\n<p>i) is based on home sampling &#8211; where you take the sample yourself at home (saliva, blood, etc, depending on the test) &#8211; and then post this to a lab that contact you later with the results.<\/p>\n<p>ii) where you both sample and get results yourself at home, without the need for an outside lab.<\/p>\n<p>In the UK, for HIV, home sampling is legal, but home testing is not.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thtbypost.org.uk\/sexual_health\/HIV_home_sampling_test\">THT offer a home sampling service<\/a> in conjunction with a private (non-NHS) clinic for <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are two types of home tests for a range of infections including HIV: i) is based on home sampling &#8211; where you take the sample yourself at home (saliva, blood, etc, depending on the test) &#8211; and then post &hellip;<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-hiv-testing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484","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=484"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24396,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions\/24396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}