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SWISH are currently offering online home STI testing . If you want to get tested and you do not have any symptoms:
Click here to complete the triage page to determine your eligibility and order a test. If you are a man who has sex with men please click here as this link also gives you information on vaccinations you may wish to access.
Click here to see how you take your blood sample
STIs will take time to show on a test, so please consider the information below before taking a test. If a test is done too early, it will not be accurate. It is better to wait to take the test if you don’t have symptoms.
- It can take two weeks after sex, for Chlamydia and Gonorrhoea to show up on a test
- An HIV test is highly accurate 4 weeks after sex and 100% accurate 8 weeks after sex
- Syphilis can take up to at least 12 weeks to show infection after sex.
If you have had sex without a condom you may want to think about getting a check-up for chlamydia, gonorrhoea, syphilis and HIV, even if you have no symptoms and everything feels okay. This is because some infections do not cause any symptoms. For example, 7 out of 10 women and 5 out of 10 men don't get any symptoms at all when they have a chlamydia infection.