Kit Instructional Video & Guidance Notes

Home Testing Kit Resources

Before you start, please read our page on Taking Your Test

We get a lot of Home STI Kits returned to our lab with insufficient blood to enable a test to be completed. Before you complete the test and take your samples, please read our page below on Taking Your Test for helpful advice and information about how to get enough blood out, what to send back and how to get the most out of your test.

Take a look at your kit and make sure you have all the items needed to complete it properly before beginning to take your samples. Please ensure your kit contains the white request form, and the sample labels. If you do not have these, please contact us.

You can also read the Guidance Notes in your pack in advance..

You'll receive these Guidance Notes in your Home STI Kit pack. For anyone interested in ordering a kit, these will provide additional information as to what to expect when you order one of our by-post Home STI kits from us. These guidance notes will help you to take your own self-samples and complete the tests you need to post back.

Or watch the instructional video on taking your own blood

The below video will help you take your blood sample, using the safety lancets provided in the pack you'll have received from us. Please watch this step-by-step video, before attempting to collect your blood sample. It will take you through filling in the form, what to expect in your pack and instructions on taking the blood sample.

Need more help?

If you need more help or are worried that your kit is defective or incomplete, please contact the Pitstop PLUS team to arrange for a new kit.

Related Links

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Pitstop Clinic

Pitstop Clinic is a dedicated clinic for Gay & Bisexual Men, Trans people and Lesbian women, who don't have symptoms and would like to test for a range of STI's. This is a face-to-face testing service, with LGBT staff, that runs out of our Woolwich offices and we have a nurse-led clinic once a week on a Wednesday evening. These services are open to you, regardless of where you live.

Free Condoms

If you are a Greenwich resident you can order free condoms to get delivered to your door. As many as 2 packs per month. You can even set up a repeat order to have them delivered every month.

Order STI Kits

If you live in Greenwich you can order a home STI testing kit to be delivered to your door completely free of charge. Simply take your tests and post it back to us and we will text you your results.

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There are an estimated 103,700 people living with HIV in the UK.

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It is estimated that 1 in 20 gay/bi men in the UK has HIV, increasing to 1 in 11 in London

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Approximately 18,100 (17%) people living with HIV in the UK are unaware of their HIV infection and have not yet been diagnosed

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Despite representing less than an estimated 2% of the London adult population, gay and bisexual men constituted 24% of all London residents diagnosed with a new sexually transmitted infection in 2013.