Fact Sheets, Web Pages, and Resources

Clinical Testing Guidance for HIV (CDC) – Guidance on HIV testing for health care providers.

HIV Testing (HIVinfo) – This fact sheet covers what HIV testing is, why it is important, who should be tested, where to get testing, the types of HIV tests, and confidentiality in HIV testing. Also available in Spanish.

HIV Testing in the United States (Kaiser Family Foundation) – This issue brief includes sections with important dates in HIV testing history, testing statistics broken down by race/ethnicity, U.S. testing recommendations and requirements, insurance coverage of HIV testing, testing sites and policies, testing techniques, and what happens after someone receives a positive HIV test result.

HIV Testing (AIDSVu) – Resources on HIV testing for public health officials, policymakers, researchers, and community members.

Guidelines and Recommendations

HIV Guidelines: HIV Testing (CDC) – CDC guidelines on HIV testing for testing providers, program managers, and laboratory personnel.

Self-Testing

Let’s Stop HIV Together: Self-Testing (CDC) – Resources from CDC’s Let’s Stop HIV Together (Together) campaign on HIV self-testing.

The Role of HIV Self-Testing in Ending the HIV Epidemic (CDC, 2022) – This issue brief considers the role that HIV self-testing may play in U.S. efforts to end the HIV epidemic. It discusses the benefits of HIV self-testing; CDC’s efforts to make HIV self-testing simple, accessible, and routine; the two types of self-tests (rapid and mail-in); steps HIV stakeholders can take to advance HIV self-testing; and examples of local HIV self-testing programs.

Selected Resources from AIDS Education and Training Centers (AETCs) and HRSA

HIV Testing and Diagnosis (AETC National Coordinating Resource Center) – Training resources, webinars and online training, factsheets and other tools for clinicians and clinician trainers.

Screening and Diagnosis Overview – (National HIV Curriculum) Training module with free CNE/CME for health care providers to establish core competence in testing for HIV, recognizing acute HIV infection, and linking persons diagnosed with HIV to medical care.

Selected Recent Reports from CDC’s MMWR Focusing on HIV Testing

Each of these reports includes some discussion of HIV testing in the United States.

HIV Services and Outcomes During the COVID-19 Pandemic – United States, 2019-2021

HIV Testing Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic – United States, 2019-2020

Vital Signs: HIV Infection, Diagnosis, Treatment, and Prevention Among Gay, Bisexual, and Other Men Who Have Sex with Men – United States, 2010-2019

HIV Infection and HIV-Associated Behaviors Among Persons Who Inject Drugs – 23 Metropolitan Statistical Areas, United States, 2018

Increasing Access to HIV Testing Through Direct-to-Consumer HIV Self-Test Distribution – United States, March 31, 2020-March 30, 2021

HIV Testing Trends Among Persons with Commercial Insurance or Medicaid – United States, 2014-2019

Trends in Diagnosis of HIV Infection, Linkage to Medical Care, and Viral Suppression Among Men Who Have Sex with Men, by Race/Ethnicity and Age – 33 Jurisdictions, United States, 2014-2018

Sex Differences in HIV Testing – 20 PEPFAR-Supported Sub-Saharan African Countries, 2019

HIV Testing Trends at Visits to Physician Offices, Community Health Centers, and Emergency Departments – United States, 2009-2017

HIV Testing Outcomes Among Blacks or African Americans – 50 Local U.S. Jurisdictions Accounting for the Majority of New HIV Diagnoses and Seven States with Disproportionate Occurrences of HIV in Rural Areas, 2017

Trends in HIV-2 Diagnoses and Use of the HIV-1/HIV-2 Differentiation Test – United States, 2010-2017

Vital Signs: Status of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Testing, Viral Suppression, and HIV Preexposure Prophylaxis – United States, 2013–2018

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