HIV Testing Week 2025: find out where you can get tested

Increasing HIV testing locally is a Bristol Fast Track City goal, supported by our Sexual Health Improvement Health Integration Team (SHIP HIT).

As people can live with HIV for a long time without any symptoms, testing is the only way to know your HIV status. Finding out means you can start treatment, stay healthy and avoid passing on on the virus  to anyone else.

National HIV Testing Week is an annual event to promote regular testing in England.

Order a free HIV test kit online

Local testing and outreach events

During HIV Testing Week (10-16 February 2025), SHIP HIT partner Terence Higgins Trust is co-ordinating drop-in sexual health testing services at venues across Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire.

East Trees Health Centre, Bristol, BS5 6SA
Mon 10 Feb, 09.00-14.30

Ridgewood Community Centre, 244 Station Road, Yate, Bristol BS37 4AF
Wed 12Feb, 10.00-13.00

North Somerset LGBT+ Forum, 68 Meadow Street, Weston-super-Mare, BS23 1QN
Thurs 15 Feb, 12.00-16.00

Access HIV testing all year round

There are many ways to get a HIV test:

Common Ambition Bristol (CAB) offers two monthly free and confidential drop-in testing services for people from African and Caribbean heritage communities:

• CAB @ Charlotte Keel is on the last Thursday of every month 13.30-18.00 at Charlotte Keel Health Centre, Seymour Road, Bristol, BS5 0UA.
• CAB @ Montpelier Health Centre is on the First Thursday of every month 13.30-18.00 at Montpelier Health Centre, Bath Buildings, Bristol, BS6 5PT

You can test for HIV, syphilis, gonorrhoea, chlamydia and hepatitis. You can also get free PrEP as well as free condoms and HIV oral self-test kits.

For other sexual health services or to book an appointment for an HIV test, please visit the Unity Sexual Health website.

Self testing kits

If you would like to get tested, and do not have any symptoms, you can request a free Unity NHS postal test kit for STIs (chlamydia, gonorrhoea, syphilis and HIV). The kit will be sent to you in a blank envelope.

You can also order a free HIV test online from the NHS Free Testing service

Free HIV oral self-tests kits and self-sampling kits for other STIs (syphilis, gonorrhoea, chlamydia) are also available from Unity vending machines across the city.