Testing takes 10 to 20 minutes per person to adequately inform students on HIV and how they can get their results. Pfaff said results are confidential, and students may check their results individually. Test results will be numbered for confidentiality. Hearing and visual screenings, and height, weight and skin fold measurements will not be offered this year. The height and weight measurements were replaced because the NSA members believed the screenings were unnecessary and the skin fold measurements inaccurate.
Students can have their blood pressure and cholesterol checked.
Hall said it is obvious to people if they have hearing or visual complications. This is not the case for blood pressure and cholesterol. People need to be aware of these problems now instead of waiting until they are 40 and 50 years old to change their lifestyles, Staes said. To get accurate results, students should fast from midnight until the time of blood pressure and cholesterol testing. Students who cannot be tested at those times or do not fast for testing may pick up vouchers from nursing students and return for testing later that day or week.