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HIV Testing

Understanding Your HIV Test Results

Knowing your HIV status empowers you to take steps to keep you and your partner(s) healthy. This brochure will help you understand your HIV test results and provides tips on what you should do after receiving your results.

HIV Testing 101

Many HIV tests are quick, FREE, and painless. You can also use an HIV self-test to learn your HIV status at home or in a private location.

HIV Testing Pocket Guide

Download and print out your own pocket guide to HIV Testing with tips on getting tested, where you can get tested, and what to do if your test is negative or positive.

Additional Resources

PrEP Me Idaho

Learn how you can prevent HIV and take the necessary steps to protect yourself and others.

Rural HIV/AIDS Prevention and Treatment Toolkit

This toolkit compiles evidence-based and promising models and resources to support organizations implementing HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment programs in rural communities across the United States.

HIV Treatment

The Journey to Undetectable

HIV medicine can reduce the amount of HIV in your blood (called viral load) to a level so low that a test can’t detect it. This is known as an “undetectable viral load” or “undetectable.”

HIV and AIDS: What's the Difference?

Better understand the difference between HIV and AIDS.

HIV Treatment is HIV Prevention Pocket Guide

Download and print out your own pocket guide to HIV Treatment with tips on when to start treatment, how to get and keep an undetectable viral load, and additional prevention options.

HIV Treatment is HIV Prevention

Having an undetectable viral load (or staying virally suppressed*) is the best thing you can do to stay healthy. If your viral load stays undetectable, you will not transmit HIV to your sex partner.

Living With HIV 101

Start medical care and HIV treatment as soon as you find out you have HIV. Staying in medical care can keep you healthy and help protect others.

Tips for Taking Your HIV Meds On Time

Make taking your medicines part of your daily routine. For example, take your medicines after you brush your teeth every morning.

What Do My Lab Results Mean

See what various different lab results mean and what other important tests are.

What's a Blip?

Frequent blips can be a sign of trouble. But occasional blips can happen to anyone with HIV. An occasional blip doesn’t mean that your HIV treatment is failing.

HIV Care and Treatment in Rural Communities

The RWHAP encourages innovative practices to best reach and meet the needs of people with HIV in rural communities.

Additional Resources

The AIDS Education and Training Center (AETC) National Coordinating Resource Center (NCRC) coordinates and promotes cross-regional and national AETC Program resources and services.

HIV/AIDS Guidlines

Expert advice on preventing and treating HIV, from initiating treatment to managing advanced disease.

National HIV Curriculum

The National HIV Curriculum is an AIDS Education and Training Center Program led by the University of Washington.

Utilizing Social Media to Increase Community Engagement in Rural Areas

Social media strategies for community engagement in rural areas in the planning, development, and implementation of HIV care and treatment services and a description of how social media has improved community engagement in rural areas and identify available resources to develop and implement social media strategies.

Gender Affirming Care

Finding Pride in Rural Healthcare

Read the coinciding blog post highlighting Dr. Anthony Carney, a nurse practitioner providing affirming care for LGBTQ+ patients in a rural Kentucky clinic. It explores his journey, what affirming care entails, and the challenges faced by LGBTQ+ individuals in rural areas.

LGBTQ Groups

Resource Library

The following Resource Library was created by Cornerstone Whole Healthcare Organization to support communities across the state and country in developing more inclusive, safe, and culturally appropriate care environments for LGBTQ+ patients and neighbors.

LGBTQIA+ Health in Rural America

This National Rural Health Association Policy Brief will help expand understanding on how rural communities can be better prepared to support LGBTQIA+ individuals and their families.

Cultural Competence Webinar Series

This cultural competence webinar series explores the health concerns and healthcare of LGBT people and is open to anyone. We review the social determinants that influence how LGBT people seek and receive care and the impact those influences have on health.

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