New HIV test gets you results in a minute or less

December 5, 2019

It’s no secret a stigma surrounds the three letters, but the INSTI test is making more people feel comfortable.

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“We have more people coming in now because you have those people that don’t want to wait that 20 minutes,” Prevention Specialist with Metro Healthy Communities Shirlene Manuel said. “They say it lasts a lifetime. The people that we do the blood work on where we have a two day turn around on the blood work also think that’s a lifetime. To get that result in a minute has made more people want to come in and get tested.”

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