We may offer you confidential HIV counseling and HIV testing after one of our experienced staff members assesses your risk. Not everyone will be offered an HIV test at every visit. Depending on your sexual practices and drug-use practices, we may need to refer you to your primary care provider or to another clinic for HIV testing. To better understand your risk for HIV, complete the anonymous risk calculator.

• Timing: The rapid HIV test takes about 4-6 weeks to turn positive after someone has been infected with HIV. Results from the test are available in 20 minutes.

  If the rapid test is negative, we might order an HIV viral load test. This test takes about 7-10 days to turn positive after someone has been infected with HIV. Results are available in 5-10 business days.

  If the rapid test is positive, blood is sent to the public health lab for a confirmatory test. Results will be available within 5-10 business days.

• Receiving results: We'll notify you if your HIV viral load test result is positive. We do not contact patients to notify them of negative test results. HIV Test results are available in MyChart. If you do not hear from us, that's good news! However, if you want to confirm that your results were negative, you can call us at 628-217-6608 or come in to the clinic.