Planned Parenthood offers testing that may cost money depending on your insurance. Testing does not need to cost money. Numerous centers around New Jersey offer free HIV and STD testing.

• CAN Community Health in Denville, NJ

• Hyacinth (multiple locations)

• Project COPE in Paterson (multiple locations)

• The Pride Center of New Jersey

• Planned Parenthood in Montclair*

• NJ Health Department HIV Rapid Testing Sites**

*Call ahead of time to confirm price

**This was just updated in December of 2023. Recheck the NJ Department of Health website frequently for more updated information. 

If you are interested in helping out the community besides just practicing safe sex, there are numerous community centers that need volunteers to stay afloat. The amount of sites one can participate at is not limited to this list.

• Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan New Jersey (includes Montclair)

• Edge NJ in Parsippany, NJ

There are numerous books one can read about the HIV epidemic, both non-fiction and fiction. A lot of the material you will likely find is about the past. It is with this that I hope there will be more written about current politics and conditions related to HIV/AIDS in the US.

List:

• The Other Pandemic: An AIDS Memoir by Lynn Curlee

• My Government Means to Kill Me by Rasheed Newson

• Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York 1987-1993 by Sarah Schulman

There are many documentaries, movies, plays, and music one can find that is related to the HIV epidemic. There is a lot of non-fiction, but there is just as much fiction that was written at the height of the pandemic, as well as some today. 

List:

• Rent

• Pose

• Philadelphia

• How to Survive a Plague

• The Normal Heart