Together Take Me Home

I am Doctor Demeter, and I am your HIV doctor.

Together Take Me Home is a really exciting program…to make it really easy for people to get home-based [HIV] testing.

You go online, you fill out a little bit of information and a testing kit gets sent to your house. It is in very subtle packaging. So, it’s not landing as an HIV test…it’s pretty anonymous.

And, not only can you get one, but you can get two. And, that means that you can give one to a friend…or a sex partner so they can know their HIV status too.

It lets you really take control of your own sort of HIV story and your own health.

If it’s negative, you can think about pre-exposure prophylaxis.

And, if it’s positive, that’s really a call to action to go follow up with a healthcare professional, whether it’s a nurse or a doctor or other, just to make sure that you confirm that test…and also connect to care.

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