We are committed to providing high quality, accessible primary health care, as well as selected specialty and public health services.
We are committed to providing high quality, accessible primary health care, as well as selected specialty and public health services.
Hall Health Center offers information and a variety of services regarding Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS).
A medical consultation visit with a Hall Health Center health care provider is available to all currently registered students at no charge. If you have questions or concerns that you want to discuss in person about any of your health care needs, including HIV, AIDS, or any sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), make an appointment to speak with one of our health care providers. Non-student patients are charged a regular consult visit fee.
The Wellness Resource Center is located in Hall Health Center. It is stocked with brochures, newsletters, books and videos on a wide variety of topics including safer sex, HIV, HIV antibody testing, AIDS, and other STDs. Call 543-8006 for hours of operation. All telephone calls and visits to the Wellness Resource Center are kept anonymous.
Health Educators and other staff are available for individual conferences and for presentations to residence hall groups, sororities, fraternities and other organizations on a variety of topics related to HIV, AIDS, or STDs and their prevention.
This line is staffed by knowledgeable Hall Health Center personnel who can answer general questions regarding HIV, AIDS or STDs. Callers may also ask to speak directly to a medical professional if they prefer. These calls are handled anonymously.
Hall Health Center offers HIV Antibody Testing on a confidential basis.
If you request a confidential HIV antibody test, the test information and results are entered into your medical record. Hall Health Center maintains your record in a strictly confidential manner.
There is no charge for any pre- or post-test counseling if you are a currently enrolled UW student. Students and non-students who are insured should consult their benefit plans for coverage of lab testing fees. Those not insured will be billed accordingly.
Hall Health Center maintains referral lists of community HIV-related services. We can give you the names of organizations that provide services such as support groups, in-home or long term care, or crisis information. Additional information is available through:
Hall Health Center adheres to strict confidentiality and non-disclosure policies to protect the information in your medical records. Information cannot be released from your medical record to anyone (including parents, employers, instructors, friends, domestic partners).
This policy is intended to provide basic information to members of the campus community about the ways in which the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), the causative factor leading to Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), is transmitted. It is also designed to make the academic community aware of the fundamental principles which will govern University-sponsored clinical and educational activities relating to HIV infection and AIDS and to ensure that confirmed or suspected cases of infection are managed appropriately.
Extensive medical research indicates that the HIV is not transmitted through casual contact. Transmission requires intimate sexual contact or exposure to needles associated with intravenous drug abuse, to blood or blood products, or to other body fluids. Accordingly, legal and ethical considerations militate against the adoption of any policies or courses of action which would deny ordinary privileges and rights, including that of privacy, to students, faculty or staff members who are known or suspected to be infected with the HIV.
The University shall disseminate accurate and objective educational information on the HIV and AIDS to the campus community. The University will also make available to eligible persons appropriate clinical services, including testing and counseling, and will make referrals as necessary to other health-care agencies.
Administrative responsibility for implementing this policy is assigned to the Director of Hall Health Center. The Director will be advised by a committee composed of the Director of Environmental Health and Safety, the Executive Director of Health Sciences Administration, the Director of Personnel Services, the Vice President for Student Affairs and an ex-officio representative of the Office of the Attorney General. The committee may call upon other members of the University community for assistance.