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====Testing Facilities====
====Testing Facilities====
======Home Test Kits=====
* [http://www.hivtestkit.ph/ HIV Test Kit]: The website seems to be down but the company may still exist. This is a Filipino website/company that allows you to take an HIV test and see the results in the privacy of your own home.
=====Free Testing Sites=====
"These HIV testing sites are satellite clinics of RITM or Research Institute for Tropical Medicine which is the main HIV research center in the Philippines. Testing is free and staffs are a little bit friendlier than the stressed out staffs in the hospitals but then again, Lines are usually long as they serve hundreds of clients a day and it might take 2 hours before getting tested."<ref>[http://hivtestphilippines.com/ HIV Testing in the Philippines: Top 5 Best ways to get tested for HIV/AIDS]</ref>
* [http://www.loveyourself.ph/ Love Yourself Testing]: Has a few locations in the Philippines. In Metro Manila, their location is in Pasay City. "Do you need assistance in getting yourself tested for HIV? It is completely ANONYMOUS, CONFIDENTIAL, and FREE. Our trained and certified HIV educators and counselors are willing to assist you privately and discreetly."
=====Public Facilities=====
Note: If you go to a public facility and test positive for HIV, it's very likely that the facility will ask about your sexual history, put your information on government record and potentially try to monitor your sexual practices.
* Social Hygiene Clinic:
**Manila: Operating hours, Mon – Thu: 8:00pm to 3:00pm. Free HIV testing. Results in 10-15 minutes. Confidential consultation and STD meds, HIV/AIDS testing and post-test counseling, dissemination of informational materials, referrals to other hospitals and peer counseling groups. You can ask for Dr. Diane Mendoza – Social Hygiene Clinic Physician. Address: 208 Quiricada Street, Sta. Cruz. (in front of San Lazaro Hospital), Phone: (2) 711 6942 | +63920 577 9074, Email address: manilasocialclinic@yahoo.com.
** Makati City: Address: Social Hygiene Clinic, JP Rizal Street, BarangayPoblacion, Makati, 1200 Metro Manila, Philippines
Phone: +63 2 870 1615
** Pasay: Address: Room 106, Pasay City Hall, F.B. Harrison St, Pasay, Metro Manila, Philippines, Phone: +63 2 551 4180
* [www.slh.doh.gov.ph San Lazaro Hospital - Department of Health]: "San Lazaro Hospital is a referral facility for Infectious/ Communicable Diseases. It is one of the retained special tertiary hospital of the Department of Health." Address: Quiricada St, Santa Cruz, Manila, Metro Manila, Philippines, Phone: +63 2 732 3777.
=====Private Facilities=====
* [http://www.stluke.com.ph/ St. Luke's Medical Center HIV Clinic]: Locations in Quezon City and Global City. "St. Luke's Medical Center will be an internationally recognized academic medical center by the year 2020. We are committed to deliver state of the art healthcare because at St. Luke’s Medical Center, the needs of our patients come first."
* The Medical City I-REACT Clinic: "The Medical City (TMC) has distilled 48 years of experience in hospital operation and administration in the establishment of its world-class healthcare organization that serves some 40,000 inpatients and 400,000 outpatients a year. The main facility is located on a 1.5 hectare property along Ortigas Avenue in the business district of Pasig City, Metro Manila. It is composed of 115,000 square meters of floor space, and includes two Nursing Towers with capacity of up to 800 beds, joined by a Podium, bridge ways and a Medical Arts Tower." Address: Ortigas Avenue, Pasig City, Metro Manila, Philippines, Tel. Nos. (632) 988-1000, (632)988-7000, Email us: mail@themedicalcity.com.


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