Taking an HIV test at home isn’t all that different from using a COVID test kit.
Actually, we briefly did. And it was wildly popular, if fleeting. The fact that it took so long to start—and it’s unclear if it will ever start up again—shows just how far we have to go in making HIV screening a true priority.. It comes in a large plastic case—about the size of a hardcover book—that opens like a mini-briefcase.
“I feel like individuals just like the privacy and the convenience of the at-home test,” says Juan Lopez, the director of programs at, which mails free at-home HIV tests to anyone who lives in Arizona. In 2020, more than 85 percent of people who participated in the Aunt Rita’s program chose a free at-home test over the option to get free testing at a clinic.
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