HIV testing

Adults living in Vancouver or Prince George, B.C., who have had sex likely will be asked to take an HIV detection test at the next lab, hospital or medical clinic they visit under Canada’s first such pilot project.

They can refuse the offer but won’t be able to avoid the HIV testing guerrilla marketing campaign delivered via social media, bus shelters and websites. The “seek and treat” program is meant to identify up to 3,500 more cases of HIV in B.C. [Read more…]