The campaign encourages people to get tested for HIV, by taking advantage of a free, confidential home test kit, which it calls “the most important home delivery you can get”.
With treatment, people living with HIV can live as long and healthily as anyone else. Treatment also prevents you from passing the virus on to others. But you can’t get treated if you don’t test.
Getting tested is the only way to know if you have HIV – and, in Wales, it’s never been easier.
Since its introduction by Public Health Wales in 2020, the Wales-wide postal testing service has increased testing by making it easier: the confidential test kit is now free and can be delivered to your door.
Simply order the kit online, follow the instructions, and post it back for testing.
Today also marks the first anniversary of Newport joining the global Fast Track Cities network.
The network is an international initiative which works to end new cases of HIV by 2030, have zero preventable deaths from HIV/AIDS, zero stigma and discrimination and a better quality of life for people living with HIV.
Fast Track Newport is one of four local fast track initiatives established in Wales, and works at a local level to:
- Increase awareness of testing and numbers of people getting tested
- Reduce the stigma around HIV
- Reach out to communities that have traditionally been underserved with access to HIV services.
For more information about the Fast Track initiative in Wales, visit the Fast Track Cymru website.
