The examination is strictly confidential and the results are immediate.

Dr. Magda Al-Qattan, Assistant Under-Secretary for Public Health Affairs of the Ministry of Health and Chair of the National Standing Committee on AIDS, announced the start of the Voluntary Testing and Counseling Clinic. provides the HIV testing service with complete confidentiality and immediate results for examiners.

She said the clinic came after extensive coordination with the relevant authorities to confirm Kuwait's commitment to implementing the global recommendations contributing to the fight against HIV / AIDS, reducing the number of new infections, and to the achievement of the UN's development goals, and is now determined to achieve all the goals contained in the national AIDS strategy. State of Kuwait.

She explained that this clinic, which is located in the Communicable Disease Hospital Accident (the building of Islamic medicine) operates 24 hours a day and is based on the principle of confidentiality because no request for medical care is made. information or data about the listener, and the examination is voluntary and entails no liability for the listener.

Dr. Al-Qattan stated that the accuracy of the examination was very high and that it reached 99.9% if the test was performed after a sufficient period of risk of infection, and that the rapid examination used in the clinic was approved by the Food and Drug Administration and the World Health Organization.

Dr. Al-Qattan stated that the role of the clinic is not only to examine HIV, but also to provide HIV / STI counseling and prevention services, to study the likelihood of infection and to reveal the test results. Available publications or visit the website of the National AIDS Committee and we are currently working on the possibility of knowing the result of the examination by electronic means.

She said that the performance of the clinic will be evaluated in the coming period and that, if necessary, the creation of such clinics will be expanded.