Knowing - National HIV Testing Day 2020

In the 25 years since National HIV Testing Day (NHTD) was first observed on June 27th, we’ve made remarkable progress on HIV prevention, treatment, and research—but people who haven’t been tested will not know their status or how to benefit from prevention tools or HIV medications.

So the theme for this year’s observance—“Knowing”—is particularly important. It means:

Knowing your testing options (including self-testing)
Knowing your risk
Knowing your prevention options (including Ready, Set, PrEP)
Knowing about treatment options
Knowing the importance of achieving and maintaining viral suppression
Knowing that together we can end the HIV epidemic

I invite you to watch a message from ADM Brett Giroir, MD, Assistant Secretary for Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, about these important aspects of Knowing.

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You can also share information about NHTD via the HHS Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Let's Stop HIV Together campaign and by highlighting their HIV Risk Reduction Tool. The CDC has also compiled information on HIV self-testing, a method of providing HIV diagnostic services in the time of COVID-19.