Health and Human Services Department 

Health Services Division

131 Coventry St.

Hartford, CT 06112

(860) 543 8800

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HIV Program

131 Coventry St. 

 Communicable Disease Office

Hartford, CT 06112

(T) 860-543-8822

Hours: Monday-Friday 8:30-4:30

 

  

This site contains HIV prevention messages that may not be appropriate for all audiences. Since HIV infection is spread primarily though sexual practices or by sharing needles, prevention messages and programs may address these topics. If you are not seeking such information or materials, please exit this Web site.

The HIV Program offers free confidential or anonymous HIV counseling and testing using the OraQuick Rapid HIV-1/2 Antibody or Ora-Sure HIV Antibody testing.  HIV results are available in 20 minutes. Listed below are the site locations, times, days and telephone numbers of where testing is currently been offered.  In addition the Program provides a hotline telephone service.  These services are also offered to community organizations, halfway houses, homeless shelters, soup kitchens, alternative incarnation sites, transitional housing programs, youth groups, school based clinics, drug rehabilitation programs, hearing impaired communities, and at community health fairs.

Staffs are multicultural and bilingual in English and Spanish.  Interpreters can be arranged for hearing impaired community members seeking the Program's services.   Walk-ins are accepted, but appointments are strongly recommended.

If you have any questions about HIV, AIDS and your health, feel free to send them to us, by e-mail.  Click here to send us a question or comment.

Locations and Hours:

 

Hartford Health Department

131 Coventry Street

8:30-4:30, Monday through Friday

(860) 543-8822

House of Bread

74 Chestnut Street

9:30-11:00am Tuesdays

  (860) 549-4188

Loaves and Fishes

360 Farmington Ave (Woodland St entrance)

11:30am-1:00pm, Tuesdays

(860) 524-1730  

Hartford Hospital

Conklin Building 85 Seymour St.

last appointment for testing is 3:30pm

(860) 545-5398

Community Health Services 500 Albany Ave 8:30-5:30 Tues-Thurs 8:30-6:30 Mo & Wed (860) 249-9625
McKinney Shelter 34 Huyshope Ave 4:00 p.m.-8:30 a.m.  

Our services are also available at all Hartford High Schools:
  Weaver High School on Monday Mornings
    Bulkeley High School on Tuesday Mornings
 Hartford High School on Friday Mornings

  Contact your school nurse or social worker for more information.

What the HIV Program at the Hartford Health and Human Services Department can do for you:

 

Counseling and Testing

Provide individual risk assessment by a certified HIV counselor

Provide HIV antibody testing, results are always given in person

On-site finger-stick testing in community settings

Presentations are available on HIV antibody testing

Follow-up and medical referrals  

Condoms and lubrication are available at all sites and FREE of charge
TB referrals

Anonymous and confidential testing

Referrals to other services

Referrals to counseling and testing services

Referrals to Ryan White services (case management)

Attend health fairs and conferences

 

Hotline Education and Appointments

  • May call our offices and ask questions with or without using your name

  • Information and referrals to other AIDS/HIV services

  • Appointments made without the use of your name

  • Walk-in services are accepted, however it is best to call and ask about waiting time

  • Information can be mailed to your home

  • Risk assessment is available by telephone, hotline director will make appointment if needed
     

Clinical Trials

  • Patients receiving treatment for HIV are invited to participate in a research study.  The study is looking at how different types of advice (counseling) affect how patients take their medications.  Patients will be paid for attending 9 study visits over a 15-week period.  Patients will be referred into the trials by their infectious disease physician.  Some, but not all, participants may receive an incentive for their participation. 

  • Please call Dr. Kevin Dieckaus at 860-490-4784 for more information about these clinical trials.

For further information, call the HIV Program Manager, Angelique Croasdale at  860-543-8822.

 

If you contact the HIV program at 860-543-8822 and can answer the following question correctly--and mention that you saw it here on the website--we'll give you a FREE safer sex kit!  The question:

What does the acronym HIV stand for?