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National HIV Testing Day: Get Checked
On National HIV Testing Day, the word is that everyone who is sexually active should get tested regularly. Here's where to go near Sonoma.
America's struggle with HIV is now more than 30 years old, but still the disease kills around 18,000 people each year. More than 1 million people are living with the virus, and more than 600 million people have died since the onset of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the 1980s.
June 27 is National HIV Testing Day, a campaign spearheaded by the National Association of People with AIDS to rekindle awareness and encourage testing.
The Centers for Disease Control recommends that sexually active men and women are tested for HIV every year as part of standard a STD check.
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According to UNAIDS, no social group is exempt from being susceptible to HIV. Despite common perceptions about certain at-risk demographics, such as homosexual men and drug users, anyone who has unprotected sex with a person living with HIV can become infected. HIV can also be contracted by sharing contaminated needles or having a contaminated blood transfusion. Infants can also be infected from their mothers during pregnancy, labor or breastfeeding.
"National HIV Testing Day reminds each of us to do our part in fighting HIV/AIDS and get tested," said President Barack Obama in a White House press statement. "All of us have a responsibility to ourselves and those around us to know our status and reduce our risk. So on this National HIV Testing Day and every day, I encourage every American to join the fight against HIV/AIDS and get tested."
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Here is where you can get tested for HIV near Sonoma:
1. , 430 W Napa St Ste F
Sonoma, California 95476, (707)-939-6070
- Chlamydia Testing
- Conventional HIV Blood Testing
- Gonorrhea Testing
- Hepatitis B Vaccine
- Herpes Testing
- STD Testing
- Syphilis Testing
2. Petaluma Health Center , 1301 Southpoint Blvd Petaluma, California 94954, 707-559-7500
- Chlamydia Testing
- Conventional HIV Blood Testing
- Gonorrhea Testing
- Hepatitis B Vaccine
- Herpes Testing
- HPV Vaccine
- STD Testing
- Syphilis Testing
3. Napa County Health and Human Services Agency , 2344 Old Sonoma RdBldg G Napa, California 94559, (707)-253-4270.
- FREE HIV TESTING
- Chlamydia Testing
- Conventional HIV Blood Testing
- Gonorrhea Testing
- Herpes Testing
- Rapid HIV Blood Testing
- STD Testing
- Syphilis Testing
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