You can get a test at a health department, hospital, doctors office or clinic. Depending upon where you go to get tested, you will either be given an anonymous test or a confidential test . By calling an AIDS hotline in your area, or by calling the local public health department, you can find out where you can be tested, free of charge, without your parents' permission if you absolutely feel you can't tell them. Anonymous HIV testing means you don't give your name but use a number to identify yourself. This way, only you will know your results.
Anonymous testing is available in many states.
Anonymous testing shouldn't be confused with confidential HIV testing. The term confidential means that you use your name which allows your doctor, and others in your doctor's office, to know your test results. This information becomes part of your medical record which is private. Confidential testing is available in all states. There are several different types of HIV tests.