Know your status. Connect to care.
Any time | Any place | Any body
We designed the new Health Connect Jamaica Virtual app to be a central part of the I’m Ready Jamaica program.
The Health Connect Jamaica Virtual app is how you’ll get free HIV self-testing kits, respond to surveys and be referred to services and information for HIV treatment, prevention and care.
We also built a secure telehealth service within the Health Connect Jamaica Virtual app where you can access peer navigation support before, during or after you test.
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How the Health Connect Jamaica Virtual app works
Once you download the app through the Apple or Google Play stores, you’ll open the app, answer a few eligibility questions and accept our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy, and create a profile. Your participation is private.
The app will generate a unique user ID for you. This ID is how we know which survey responses are from you without knowing who you are.
After you answer an short pre-test survey, you can choose to have self-testing kit(s) delivered to your home or another address, or to pick up a kit at one of our partner pickup locations.
Next, once you have your kit(s), the Health Connect Jamaica app will guide you through testing, ask about your results and suggest follow-up HIV prevention and care resources for you to access.
The Test app will also ask you to complete a short follow-up survey, after you test to find out how you’re doing and whether you have accessed care or support. If you need someone to talk to after your test click here
If you received a positive result click here
Self-testing is a great tool to empower our people to take charge of their health and get tested for HIV.
GEOFFREY J. BARROW, DIRECTOR, HEALTH CONNECT JAMAICA
Consent and privacy
Throughout this process, our peer navigators are available to support you any time before, during or after you test through our Health Connect Jamaica Virtual secure telehealth service. You can choose which peer navigator you wish to speak to by reviewing their profile. The peer navigators will respect your privacy.
For detailed information about how data is collected and stored as well as your privacy as a participant, please visit our terms of use and privacy pages.
More about the app
Health Connect Jamaica, part of The University of the West Indies and funded by the generosity of the American People through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), worked closely with our partners at REACH Nexus to design the innovative and user-friendly Health Connect Jamaica Virtual app.
Download the Health Connect Jamaica app