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Health Commissioner Julia Sheen announced today that the Department of Health STD/HIV/TB Program will hold a series of events beginning
today, to commemorate National HIV Testing Day.
National HIV Testing Day is celebrated June 27 annually but the STD/HIV/TB Program will hold free-testing through July 3, 2010, to encourage residents to take the test.
This year’s theme is “Take the Test, Take Control.”
“While June 27 is observed annually as National HIV testing day, every day is HIV testing day,” Sheen said. “We encourage residents to live up to this year’s theme and take the test and take control of their lives.”
Residents can know their status within minutes of taking the Rapid HIV Test which will be administered, Sheen said.
Free testing will be held through July 3 at various times at these locations:
Wednesday June 23,
2010 from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm
- St. Thomas: Seaborne
Terminal
- St. Croix: Seaborne
Terminal
Thursday June 24,
2010 from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm
- St. John: The Market
Place-Cruz Bay
Friday, June 25, 2010
(time is TBA)
- St. Thomas: Club 75
- St. Croix: Players
Club Central
Saturday, June 26,
2010 from 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm
- St. Thomas:
Philadelphia Seventh Day Adventist Church
- St. Croix: Central
Seventh Day Adventist Church at Sian Farm Ball Park
Monday June 28, 2010
from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm
- St. Thomas: Clinic
Only HIV Screening
- St. Croix: Clinic
Only HIV Screening
Saturday, July 3,
2010 from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm
- St. Croix: Seventh
Day Adventist Church Health Fair
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