Free HIV Testing

[AfA_hmor]

Dear Sammy Boys

For a limited period only, AfA is offering free HIV testing services. Simply present this web coupon at the Anonymous Testing site.



http://www.afa.org.sg/i/home/HIV%20Test%201.jpg

You can either print it out OR you can take a picture of it using your handphone and show it to the person at the counter to get a free HIV test.

Its for Anonymous Testing services on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Saturdays.

Valid till 31 October 2008.

Never taken a HIV test before? Find out more at Action for AIDS - Anonymous HIV Testing

Good stuff must share-share, so feel free to tell your chiong kakis!

[AfA_hmor]

The short answer is yes. There are financial subsidies for needy people. AfA is actually not the only organization giving these subsidies and assistance.

You shouldn't just focus on the $1000 and use that as an excuse to choose to be ignorant. Remember, its not just about you, its about your loved ones, its about your whole life. Choosing to be ignorant is like being an ostrich sticking its head in the sand, pretending nothing is wrong, when actually everything is getting worse. For example, you could be infecting other people, can you live with that? And if you wait till the end stage and develop AIDS you could be so severely sick that you wipe out even more of your savings, and burden other people to have to take care of you.

There's definitely light at the end of the tunnel. You just need to be realistic, and be brave enough make the right choices.

Anyways, getting a HIV test helps you to get a peace of mind.

[AfA_hmor]

Bump.
Cuz the Promo is still on.
And all teething problems are solved.

[yeeba]

Up for you, too. Any DIY kit to test HIV?

[smlee]

Originally Posted by mic1838

Hi brothers,

Please watch the video and comment.

......
.....

.

sounds like billy bollocks to me. Might as well don't go for any health screening...they are all illusion

[AfA_hmor]

mic1838, curious leh, how come u so anti-HIV awareness, prevention and testing?

[smlee]

Originally Posted by mic1838

Brother AFA, dont misunderstand me please. Dont get upset, I am just presenting some alternative viewpoints. I am not advocating promiscuity at all, I also believe one must be responsible for one's actions. There are indeed some salient points on both sides of the isle, and I believe that some parts of the video convey the truth. I did some research into the issue and i am appalled at some of the things that are happening. There is a lot of money and corporate greed involved in this hiv/aids issue. A lot are truths, some are half truths. What is definitely true is that hiv treatment is immensely lucrative(medicine costing dollars are selling for $1500 in singapore). To start treatment, one has to get a positive test result first,and to get a positive result one must first go for test. It may be really true that ARV medicine is not totally what is propounded. Even if it really prolongs your life, you will spend your entire life benefitting the large pharmaceutical companies and satisfying corporate greed. I know of people who dont even wish to seek treatment for cancer. A doctor i knew just died from cancer. He told me his sickness is fatal, instead of prolonging his life and being in agony most of the time, he would rather leave the money to his family. The reason is these illnesses are fatal, you will die eventually. When you said about seeking treatment early, you wont have complications is a half truth. The truth is eventually you will get very sick, whether you take the medicine or not. It is inevitable. We have the money to host F1, host IMF, pay our president close to $4000000, but we simply cant afford to subsidise HIV medication. Check the statistics, the people going for the HIV test are really not that many. This is because they know in Singapore you can die, but never get sick. This mindset is difficult to change. The solution to the problem is not to encourage more people to go for tests, but rather how to make medicine more affordable so that people will not hesistate to go for the test. AFA can help some people with ARV medication but definitely not all.

Who doesn't get sick really and who doesn't die end of the day? Basically it is pure survival , who doesn't want to live their life to the fullest.

Seriously everything in this world has its determinants and nobody wants to be a saint and tell you they are doing it form humanitarian reason. Just like the doctor you were referring to.....he basically value $$ on top of everything. His family needs him and not his $$$. What we human need is kinship and love and this is far greater than $$$. btw if you are not happy about the president or minister getting so much money , you will need to vote them out.

The problem is we singaporean spend so much time KPKB and yet end of the day , we do nothing about it.

End of the day, what afa brother wants to advocate is to promote awareness - to promote safety procedures as well as telling the world that having HIV is not the end of the world. We need to teach our society to be gracious and accept people with this disease and not to view them with discrimination.

there are a miliion of other way to die and AIDS is just one of them

COnclusion - just be cautious and protect yourself and people around you. Ignorance and living in fear of getting the disease will kill you faster than the disease itself. I have been thru this myself and especially when Im very ill and begin to think that I have contracted it.

Without the test, i wouldn't have a peace of mind ......

[AfA_hmor]

Originally Posted by mic1838

Brother AFA, dont misunderstand me please. Dont get upset, I am just presenting some alternative viewpoints. I am not advocating promiscuity at all, I also believe one must be responsible for one's actions. There are indeed some salient points on both sides of the isle, and I believe that some parts of the video convey the truth. I did some research into the issue and i am appalled at some of the things that are happening. There is a lot of money and corporate greed involved in this hiv/aids issue. A lot are truths, some are half truths. What is definitely true is that hiv treatment is immensely lucrative(medicine costing dollars are selling for $1500 in singapore). To start treatment, one has to get a positive test result first,and to get a positive result one must first go for test. It may be really true that ARV medicine is not totally what is propounded. Even if it really prolongs your life, you will spend your entire life benefitting the large pharmaceutical companies and satisfying corporate greed. I know of people who dont even wish to seek treatment for cancer. A doctor i knew just died from cancer. He told me his sickness is fatal, instead of prolonging his life and being in agony most of the time, he would rather leave the money to his family. The reason is these illnesses are fatal, you will die eventually. When you said about seeking treatment early, you wont have complications is a half truth. The truth is eventually you will get very sick, whether you take the medicine or not. It is inevitable. We have the money to host F1, host IMF, pay our president close to $4000000, but we simply cant afford to subsidise HIV medication. Check the statistics, the people going for the HIV test are really not that many. This is because they know in Singapore you can die, but never get sick. This mindset is difficult to change. The solution to the problem is not to encourage more people to go for tests, but rather how to make medicine more affordable so that people will not hesistate to go for the test. AFA can help some people with ARV medication but definitely not all.

There are many many people who are against providing cheaper ARVs because they think people who get AIDS deserve it. Afterall, the common perception is that people who get AIDS are all immoral homosexuals, prostitutes and people who use prostitutes.

mic1838, what would you do in such a situation? what would you do to change the perceptions of people?

Next question, Mic1838, have you ever encountered a person who is living with HIV?

[phillyricky]

Many thanks for this free testing coupon AfA!

I went to the AfA test for a few occasions in the past. I observed something which I am curious to know if they make any difference in the testing result.

1) some volunteers at the blood sample taking room didn't wipe away the first drop of blood with a sterile gauze pad. Will this affect the result at all?

2) Some volunteers didn't dispose the Lancet into the waste container immediately (at least until I stepped out the room). My question is: are those lancets designed to prevent re-using?

3) It is said that the test result will be ready at least 15 minutes, could 8 or 10 mintues be good enough? I was once called in only 8 mintues after taking the test.

thanks for all your reply!

Originally Posted by AfA_hmor

Dear Sammy Boys

For a limited period only, AfA is offering free HIV testing services. Simply present this web coupon at the Anonymous Testing site.



http://www.afa.org.sg/i/home/HIV%20Test%201.jpg

You can either print it out OR you can take a picture of it using your handphone and show it to the person at the counter to get a free HIV test.

Its for Anonymous Testing services on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Saturdays.

Valid till 31 October 2008.

Never taken a HIV test before? Find out more at Action for AIDS - Anonymous HIV Testing

Good stuff must share-share, so feel free to tell your chiong kakis!

[AfA_hmor]

Dear PhillyRicky, you've always been asking the same questions about accuracy and safety, and the answers to your questions haven't changed. Just a suggestion, maybe you want to give OraQuick a try?

[phillyricky]

Afa_hmor - thanks for your reply. I read from another thread there also happened to be some faulty lancet in the past. There are two possibility of that faulty lancet: 1) it's really a faulty one 2) if the lancet used at AFA site is so called safety lancet in the market, it does a job to prevent the 2nd usage, i.e., you only hear one click sound. In this case, even if it was a used one, it did its job to prevent 2nd time usage.

Of course, like you said and we all believe, AFA site testing is a clinic setting, all used lancets are disposed into the sharp container.However, Could you please let all the worry-soul know if the lancet used there is designed for one-time usage only (i.e. safety lancet with a single puncture mode)?

thanks again and you have really done a great job in connecting here with sound educations!

Cheers!

Originally Posted by AfA_hmor

Dear PhillyRicky, you've always been asking the same questions about accuracy and safety, and the answers to your questions haven't changed. Just a suggestion, maybe you want to give OraQuick a try?

[AfA_hmor]

HIV testing is safe lah. Our job is not to prevent AIDS, not spread AIDS.
Don't worry so much.

Last Call for Free HIV test. 29 Oct is the LAST Day. Its Now or never.

[suckerll]

Originally Posted by AfA_hmor

HIV testing is safe lah. Our job is not to prevent AIDS, not spread AIDS.
Don't worry so much.

Last Call for Free HIV test. 29 Oct is the LAST Day. Its Now or never.

think it should be "Our job is to prevent AIDS, not spread AIDS."

[Naka_Timo]

Hear there are 4 new clinics being set up, not sure any1 knw any of them.

Hear is @geylang, @jurong n the other 2 i m not sure.

[Assassin]

Originally Posted by Naka_Timo

Hear there are 4 new clinics being set up, not sure any1 knw any of them.

Hear is @geylang, @jurong n the other 2 i m not sure.

The four new GP clinics are
(1) Dr Jay Medical Centre at 115 Killiney Road;
(2) Dr Soh Family Clinic at Block 966 Jurong West St 93;
(3) M Lam Clinic at 739 Geylang Road ; and
(4) Robertson Medical Practice at Robertson Walk.

Currently, only three clinics – Anteh Dispensary, Cambridge Clinic and the Action for AIDS Anonymous HIV Testing and Counselling Clinic – offer anonymous HIV testing.

To encourage more at-risk individuals to go for early HIV testing, MOH is adding four private clinics to its current list of anonymous HIV testing clinics. These clinics will offer anonymous testing from Saturday, November 1 2008.