Is there a home test kit for HIV?

Is there a home test kit for HIV?

Charles Farthing (Chief of Medicine, AIDS Healthcare Foundation) gives expert video advice on: What are the symptoms of HIV?; Where can I be tested for HIV?; Is there a home test kit for HIV? and more...

There is a home test kit for HIV, Anybody testing, and people can buy that and take it and do the test at home. They do have to send the blood in, and then they will get the result later. They can't get the HIV result at home by themselves. The reason for that is that people generally need some counselling around a positive HIV test because some people erroneously assume that HIV means AIDS and they erroneously assume that AIDS means death. AIDS certainly doesn't mean death now. It's a controllable disease; we have such good treatment. Nobody should die of AIDS, but people still have these beliefs, so we don't want people finding out they've got HIV all by themselves at home, thinking that it's the end of the world and perhaps committing suicide.