Testing for patients with specific lifestyle or demographic characteristics

Testing is recommended for all patients who fall into the following groups:

  • Sexual partners of HIV-positive people
  • Men who have disclosed that they have sex with other men
  • Female sexual partners of men who have sex with men
  • People reporting a history of injecting drug use
  • People from countries of high HIV prevalence (above 1%)
  • Sexual partners of people from countries with high HIV prevalence