Wyoming Health Officials Urge HIV Testing

Officials with the Wyoming Department of Health are urging people to get tested for the HIV virus.

HIV is the virus that causes AIDS, which is now known as HIV stage 3.

The virus is spread through unprotected sex, blood to blood contact and from mother to child through birth and breastfeeding. Monday, June 27 is National HIV Testing Day.

Debi Anderson of the department says everyone between the ages of 15-64 should be tested. But she says people who have engaged in high-risk behaviors should especially be tested.

Those behaviors include unprotected sex, multiple sex partners, men having sex with men and injection drug use.

She says some people with HIV don't experience any symptoms and don't know they are infected.

There is a website for Wyoming residents to get information on HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases. The website also has information and voucher codes to allow people to get free or low cost STD testing.