Lloydspharmacy launches online STI screening service

摘要

Lloydspharmacy has launched an online screening service for sexually transmitted infections, including HIV and gonorrhoea. Customers wishing to use the service, which costs ￡75, must register online and are then sent a screening test pack, with instructions for sending urine and saliva samples to a testing laboratory. The urine sample is tested for genital chlamydia and genital gonorrhoea and the saliva sample is tested for signs of HIV The service makes it clear that the saliva test cannot diagnose HIV but can reveal that there are no signs of HIV in the sample or that the test was reactive, and so cannot rule out the possibility of HIV infection.