HIV Testing

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HIV Testing

Routine HIV testing

HIV testing has shifted from risk-based to routine for any adult who has not had a test in the past year. HIV tests will be routinely offered both in hospital and physician office settings in conjunction with other routine blood draws or medical screening.

HIV test is free, easy and available wherever you access healthcare.

Call a Health Outreach Nurse toll free 1-866-778-7736
At your doctor’s office
GetCheckedOnline (Nelson, Kimberley and Kamloops)
On Demand testing
At an emergency department
Anonymously by calling toll free 1-866-778-7736
BC HIV Testing Guidelines

On Demand HIV testing

On Demand HIV testing is now available at all Interior Health labs across the region and at Valley Medical Laboratories in the Okanagan. Learn more.

Emergency department HIV testing

An HIV test may be included in bloodwork done in the Emergency Department. Learn more.

We recognize and acknowledge that we are collectively gathered on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the seven Interior Region First Nations, where we live, learn, collaborate and work together. This region is also home to 15 Chartered Métis Communities. It is with humility that we continue to strengthen our relationships with First Nation, Métis, and Inuit peoples across the Interior.

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