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Free and anonymous mail-in HIV testing for international migrants

Free and
anonymous
mail-in HIV testing
for international
migrants

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The important facts about HIV

  1. Early detection and treatment of HIV infection will enable a person to live a healthy life without developing AIDS.
  2. Foreigners living in Japan will not be forced to leave the country because they are infected with HIV.
  3. It is illegal to be expelled from school or dismissed from the workplace for being infected with HIV.

About mail-in HIV test

A mail-in HIV test is one in which you mail a small amount of blood collected from your fingertips at a location of your choice to a laboratory and can check your HIV test results online about a week later.

  • Register online to take the test
  • Receive HIV test kits at specific locations.
  • Follow the instructions included in the test kit, draw blood from your fingertips yourself, and mail the collected blood to the designated laboratory.
  • About a week later, the test results are confirmed on a secure web site.

If the test result is blood test required, you must take a blood test.
We will introduce you to medical institutions where you can take the blood test, and provide support such as dispatching an interpreter to assist you during the test.

How to receive the HIV test kit

  1. Come to the a specific distribution site to pick it up.
  2. Pick up at a post office
  3. Mail to your home

This mail-in HIV test is free and anonymous, but if you choose ② or ③, we will ask you for your name and mailing address. However, we will discard those information at the end of delivery of the HIV test kit.
Also, when we mail the kit, we will send it with a package that you cannot tell what the contents are from the outside.

This mail-in testing is being conducted as a research project “Feasibility study of Social Implementation of Multilingual Mail-in HIV Testing”, so a questionnaire survey will be conducted at the time of test registration to understand the characteristics of the participants, and a satisfaction survey regarding this mail-in testing will be conducted after the notification of test results. Please note that the principal investigator will be able to check the test results in a way that does not identify individuals, in order to manage the progress of the research. We would like to ask for your cooperation, as we will be using the results to consider ways to improve access to the mail-in HIV test for non-Japanese residents in the future.

Do you agree to participate in the research project “Feasibility study of Social Implementation of Multilingual Mail-in HIV Testing”, understanding the above?

Once you have received the mail-in HIV test kit, please collect a specimen and send it to the testing organization within one week.

Please note that registration is limited to one per person, as there is a limited number of mail-in test kits that can be distributed free of charge. Also, please be aware that registration will close once the limit is reached.

Would you like to take a mail-in HIV test?

Are you 18 years old or older?

Registration of free and anonymous mail-in HIV test

  1. Please fill out the pre-survey on the mail-in HIV test
  2. Reception number will be issued after the survey is completed
  3. Please register with LINE to provide online support after taking the test.

Pre-survey on mail-in HIV test

The purpose of this survey is to understand the characteristics of those who wish to take a mail-in HIV test, so that we can use this information in the planning and management of future mailed HIV tests. We appreciate your cooperation.

Responses to this survey will be processed statistically and individuals will not be identified from the survey data. You are free to cooperate with the survey and do not have to answer questions you do not want to answer.

In order to provide better mail-in test for internatinal migrants, we ask for your cooperation.

1. Sex

2. age

3. Your residential prefecture

4. Nationality

5. Status of residence

6. Length of your stay in Japan

7. How did you know about this mail-in HIV testing event? （check all that apply）

8. Have you taken an HIV test in Japan?

9. How many times have you taken the HIV test including this mail-in test?

10. What made you take the HIV test this time? （check all that apply）

11. Which of the following applies to you?

12. Have you had sex in the past 6 months?

13. Have you had sex with more than one person (3 or more) at the same time in the past 6 months?

14. In the past 6 months, have you paid a partner for sex?

15. In the past 6 months, have you had sex that was paid for by your partner?

16. When you had sex in the past 6 months, how often did you or your partner use a condom?

17. Currently, are you using pre-sex medication to prevent HIV infection (PrEP)?

18. Please register your e-mail address to receive a receipt number

19. Would you allow us to send the information about our future HIV testing events to your email?

Thank you for your cooperation

20. Please select how you would like to receive your HIV test kit.

21. Please enter your shipping information

To deliver the test kit to the post office, we need the name of the post office, your name, and your address. When receiving the test kit at the post office, you must present an ID that shows your name and address.

Please find a post office from the following website and enter the name of the post office or the URL
Find a post office

If the address or post office is incomplete or unclear, a confirmation email may be sent to the registered email address.

The test results, questionnaire responses, and e-mail address will be used for the purpose of this study by the Research Group and the company to which the Research Group has outsourced the test and system operation.
These data will not be used for any other purpose than the purpose of this study.