Patient Materials

Patient Handouts

Fact sheets on routine HIV testing are available for your patients. Choose a helathfile in English, Chinese, French, Punjabi, Spanish or Vietnamese, or an easy to read one page handout.

It’s Different Now

IDN is a campaign to increase public awareness and understanding of routine HIV testing and new HIV treatments.

Posters: help start the conversation

Help start the conversation with your patients. View and print posters from this site or email hiv.cpd@ubc.ca to request free posters.

Healthy Living Manual: for people living with HIV

The Healthy Living Manual provides HIV-positive individuals basic information about the virus, how to optimize their personal health, and how to approach a variety of HIV-related issues.

New HIV Testing Recommendations

Offer and recommend a routine HIV test to all adults who have not been tested in the past year, under the following conditions:

Whenever any other bloodwork is ordered
Whenever a Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI) test or diagnosis occurs (same for Hepatitis C & Tuberculosis)
Whenever asked for an HIV test

Patients with an identified risk may benefit from more frequent testing, e.g. every 3-6 months. Continue to routinely order HIV tests with prenatal bloodwork