I want to go with my partner and get a full blood screen and STD test. Can anyone recommend somewhere?
I have checked the majority of hospital websites, but they don’t directly state whether they can offer a comprehensive examination.
Are there any dedicated Sexual Health Clinics in Taipei? I can’t find any from my initial search on the internet.
Thanks in advance.
And please admin, surely any STD test centre advice should be sticky, shouldn’t it?
I think the clinic you’re looking for is in Ximending.
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I don’t know about sticky, but I would certainly wash up carefully after reading it.
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Easiest thing, if you don’t want to go to the Ximenting place, would be to go to any hospital and ask for a referral, surely? It’s not like HIV is particularly uncommon here, after all.
I’d also be happy to take the piss out of you if that’s what you’d like. Where should I start?
Fine then, I’ll visit a hosital and ask for a referral until I find somewhere decent.
I really don’t understand what you’re trying to get at here?
You should do it quickly or else you’ll just worry about it. Yangming hospital is open until noon on Saturdays, probably others too.
You get deported if you got the nasties, though. Is that still true?
community.com.tw/emergency_contacts.php
Hospitals
Taipei:
Taiwan Adventist Hospital (02)-2771-8151
Veterans General Hospital (02)-2871-2121, ext. 3530
Shin Kong Memorial Hospital (02)-2833-2211 ext.0
Lih Der Clinic at Sun Yat-Sen Cancer Center (02)2897-0320 (English Speaking contact)
Jen Ai Hospital (02)2709-3600
Chung Shan Hospital Primary Care Center (02)2708-1166 ext.377
Hsin-Chu:
Tong Yuan Hospital (03)-552-7000
Tainan:
Cheng Kung University Hospital (06)-235-3535
Here’s some telephone numbers. That link at the top might have some information. (That’s where I got the telephone numbers.)
Thank you for the information Dr. McCoy … I will make some enquiries this weekend and found out what’s best.
At the hospitals mentioned on the previous thread, you are still going to be standing in line for a long time along with groups of other people waiting to see the same specialist. I hate waiting in hospitals as I am a hypochondriac 
. In Taiwan, I think when one needs an operation or has an emergency situation, you should definitely go to the hospital. However, for diagnostic services, I would recommend going to a private health screening center. You tell them what tests you would like them to perform. There are numerous different companies than run these throughout Taiwan. They give you comfortable robes, slippers, and take you around to different stations that you requested when you made an appointment. Just recently, I had some blood work done, an xray, and EKG, a hearing test, an eye test, and they checked out my liver and gall bladder with ultrasound. They even have a nice dining room and rooftop park for lunch between the tests. Best of all, you have a 20-30 min 1-on-1 with the leading doctor after these tests are done (around 30 mins after the last test–they are quick) You can also get a lot more things done if you want (MRI etc.) However, these centers are a little pricier than the same services at hospital and public clinics.
[quote=“Chewycorns”]At the hospitals mentioned on the previous thread, you are still going to be standing in line for a long time along with groups of other people waiting to see the same specialist. I hate waiting in hospitals as I am a hypochondriac . In Taiwan, I think when one needs an operation or has an emergency situation, you should definitely go to the hospital. However, for diagnostic services, I would recommend going to a private health screening center. There are numerous different companies than run these throughout Taiwan. They give you comfortable robes, slippers, and take you around to different stations that you requested when you made an appointment. Just recently, I had some blood work done, an xray, and EKG, a hearing test, an eye test, and they checked out my liver and gall bladder with ultrasound. They even have a nice dining room and rooftop park for lunch between the tests. Best of all, you have a 20-30 min 1-on-1 with the leading doctor after these tests are done (around 30 mins after the last test–they are quick) You can also get a lot more things done if you want (MRI etc.) However, these centers are a little pricier than the same services at hospital and public clinics.[/quote]Did they punch your bore?
:eh: You think hospitals/clinics are obliged to inform immigration of positive test results?
I think they are. Certainly for HIV anyway.
Obviously (well in TW anyway), a health check with a positive will stop a resident visa application, but what’s being suggested is a pretty gross violation of human rights.
Fine then, I’ll visit a hosital and ask for a referral until I find somewhere decent.
I really don’t understand what you’re trying to get at here?[/quote]
Sorry, I misread your post as “no-one taking the piss out of me” instead of “one taking the piss” and though you were complaining about nobody taking the piss out of you. Just trying to help. 
But yeah, if you test positive for certain communicable diseases the tester by law has to inform the authorities. However, I was always under the impression that the Ximending place would let you get tested anonymously or under a false name or whatever. I could be wrong about that though.
privacyinternational.org/sur … taiwan.htm
“Under the HIV Prevention Law, the government can demand that foreigners who have been in Taiwan for over three months provide an HIV test, and may deport them if they test positive.[2628] This is a liberalization of the earlier rule, which called for mandatory deportation of HIV-positive foreigners.[2629]”
Taipei Times also talks about it:
taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/ … 2003215746
Good to be sexually responsible and all, but maybe you should wait until getting back to America or some first-world nation for it? Taiwan respects people’s sexual privacy only a little better than Saudi Arabia does.
I would think that a person’s health would take top priority. Just take the damn test. Most likely, it will come back negative and your mind will be put at ease.
If only it were that simple.