{"455311":{"#nid":"455311","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Health Promotion Makes FREE HIV Testing Available","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EHealth Promotion will offer free HIV testing on Thursday, October 22 \u0026nbsp;from 10am-2pm at the Student Center in the Piedmont Room.\u0026nbsp; The free testing, provided by \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.aidshealth.org\/#\/\u0022\u003EAIDS Healthcare Foundation\u003C\/a\u003E, is available to all Georgia Tech students, faculty, and staff at no charge.\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/strong\u003ETesting will be performed using the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.biolytical.com\/instifaq.html\u0022\u003EINSTI test\u003C\/a\u003E and results will be given immediately.\u0026nbsp; Health Educators will be present to make sexual health information and safer sex supplies available.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis event is a part of the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/health.gatech.edu\/promotion\/Pages\/Services-Programs\/Get-Yourself-Protected.aspx\u0022\u003EG.Y.P. (Get Yourself Protected)\u003C\/a\u003E campaign being implemented by Health Promotion. The goal of G.Y.P. is to empower Georgia Tech students to make healthy decisions regarding protection if they choose to be sexually active.\u0026nbsp; HIV testing is available to eligible students at Stamps Health Services at a low cost on an ongoing basis.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMany sexually transmitted infections (STIs), including HIV, can be asymptomatic (which means a person could have a STI and not know it).\u0026nbsp; One in five (21%) of those people living with HIV in the United States are unaware of their infection(CDC, 2008). The only way to be sure someone don\u2019t have HIV is to be tested.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHealth Promotion is proud to partner with AIDS Healthcare Foundation to provide this service to the Georgia Tech community.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EHealth Promotion will offer free HIV testing on Thursday, October 22 \u0026nbsp;from 10am-2pm at the Student Center in the Piedmont Room.\u0026nbsp; The free testing, provided by \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.aidshealth.org\/#\/\u0022\u003EAIDS Healthcare Foundation\u003C\/a\u003E, is available to all Georgia Tech students, faculty, and staff at no charge.\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/strong\u003ETesting will be performed using the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.biolytical.com\/instifaq.html\u0022\u003EINSTI test\u003C\/a\u003E and results will be given immediately.\u0026nbsp; Health Educators will be present to make sexual health information and safer sex supplies available.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Health Promotion will offer free HIV testing on Thursday, October 22  from 10am-2pm at the Student Center in the Piedmont Room."}],"uid":"28033","created_gmt":"2015-10-05 07:57:24","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:19:40","author":"John Kennington","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-10-05T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-10-05T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"456311":{"id":"456311","type":"image","title":"Free HIV Testing","body":null,"created":"1449256334","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 19:12:14","changed":"1475895199","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:53:19","alt":"Free HIV Testing","file":{"fid":"203484","name":"hiv-testing-2015-plasma-ad.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/hiv-testing-2015-plasma-ad_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/hiv-testing-2015-plasma-ad_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":116876,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/hiv-testing-2015-plasma-ad_0.jpg?itok=21aTilQd"}}},"media_ids":["456311"],"groups":[{"id":"428961","name":"Health and Well-Being"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"119541","name":"Center for Community Health and Wellbeing"},{"id":"143581","name":"free hiv testing"},{"id":"12533","name":"health promotion"},{"id":"13431","name":"HIV"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFor more information about this event, please email \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:michelle.segall@health.gatech.edu?subject=free%20HIV%20testing\u0022\u003EMichelle Cohen Segall\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["michelle.segall@health.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}