Your HEALTH
Q I would like to get a sexual health check, but would prefer not to go to a clinic. Is there a way of doing it at home?
A Yes, there are various sexually transmitted infection home testing kits available. You can buy them from pharmacies or various online medical services, but they may also be available on the NHS.
The website freetesting.hiv offers free home HIV test kits and, depending on where also offers NHS home sexually transmitted infection testing but, again, it depends on where you live, and offers testing for HIV, syphilis, gonorrhoea and chlamydia. This involves swabs and a small pinprick blood test. No information is on the outside of the kits, and the results are generally sent back to you by text message. If you are positive, you can contact your GP or local sexual health clinic.
