Access support
HIV
- Speak to your GP, or local pharmacy for more information about HIV and how to get tested
- Umbrella, the Birmingham sexual health service, offers free self-sampling HIV testing kits so you can get tested from home. Umbrella also offers free HIV testing in all their clinics.
Find out more and order a testing kit or book a test
- Change, Grow, Live, the drug and alcohol service in Birmingham also offers HIV testing.
Find out more about Change, Grow, Live
- Birmingham Heartlands HIV Service provides advice and information on HIV testing
Find out more about Birmingham Heartlands HIV Service
Or you can phone the clinic reception on: 0121 424 2847.
Hepatitis (B and C)
- A blood test is carried out to see if someone has hepatitis B. Men who have sex with men can access free hepatitis B testing through the Umbrella sexual health service. GPs. Change Grow Live (CGL) in Birmingham also offer testing for hepatitis B
- A blood test is carried out to see if someone has hepatitis C. GPs, Umbrella Sexual Health clinics and Change Grow Live (CGL) in Birmingham all offer testing for hepatitis C
- The Hep C trust team also test in community settings for HIV, hepatitis B and hepatitis C using dry blood spot tests
You can access the Birmingham team through the national helpline or by phone: 020 7089 6221.
Tuberculosis (TB)
- Speak to your GP, or local pharmacy for more information about TB and how to get tested
- Birmingham Chest Clinic can offer further help and advice.
Phone them on: 0121 424 2000.
Page last updated: 24 October 2023
