NGO offers free HIV home test kits (3)

Steven Ren, from the Secretariat of the China Alliance of People Living with HIV/AIDS told the Global Times that even if you are tested as HIV-positive, you still need to go to a disease control center for a second test.

"If the result is the same, the center will issue you with a license which is the permit for you to access the medical treatment," he said.

"Besides, if you are tested at a government health care organization then you will be on the general database [to receive professional care]," said Ren.

Ren said that while he approves of the NGO providing a different method for HIV testing, whether people could receive better mental and physical care after the test is debatable.

"Otherwise, the patients' treatment could be postponed as a result," he said.

From January to October 2011, 67.45 million people were tested for HIV and 61,000 tested positive for HIV/AIDS nationwide, the Xinhua News Agency reported. There are 434,000 people living with HIV in China, the report said on December 1, 2011.

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