STD Basic Screening

Four assays reported as five targets: HIV types 1 and 2 with the p24 antigen, hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg), hepatitis C antibodies, and RPR for syphilis. All of them run from one blood sample, with no fasting and no swab required.

Because they behave the same way. Each is carried in blood, each can go years without producing a symptom, and each is treatable once identified, so looking is the only reliable way to find them. Screening them in one draw also gives your doctor a single dated baseline to measure against later.

RPR is a non-treponemal test: it measures the antibody response your body mounts during syphilis rather than detecting the bacterium. That makes it a good first-line screen, but pregnancy, autoimmune disease and recent infections can make it reactive without syphilis, so a reactive RPR is always confirmed with a treponemal test.

Not necessarily. The antibody records that your immune system has met the virus, and it stays positive after an infection has cleared on its own or been treated. The follow-up is an HCV RNA test, which looks for the virus itself and answers whether the infection is still active.

No. Those organisms live in the genital tract and are detected by PCR on a urine sample rather than in blood. The STD Core Screening (STD-7) covers chlamydia, gonorrhoea, trichomonas and the mycoplasma and ureaplasma species, and can be booked alongside this one.

For blood-borne infections it is the standard baseline, and for many people that is exactly the question they arrived with. If you have discharge, burning or irritation, add a urine PCR panel: the STD Advanced 20 combines this blood screen with a fourteen-target genital panel and a urinalysis in one booking.

A test now gives you a dated starting point and is worth having. Antigens and antibodies each take their own time to become detectable, though, so a recent exposure may not show yet, and your doctor may advise repeating the screen after a suitable interval.

A screening result is a signal, not a verdict. Each marker has its own confirmatory test: a treponemal test after a reactive RPR, HCV RNA after a hepatitis C antibody, a second-method assay after HIV, and our team contacts you with the next steps, with a physician explaining what that test is looking for.

Yes. You book this screen yourself, the sample is taken at an address you choose, and all five targets are reported to you alone through your secure account. It is private health screening rather than a visa or employment medical, which is arranged separately. Our STD testing in Dubai page explains how it works.

AED 299 includes all four assays and free home sample collection anywhere in Dubai, seven days a week, by a DHA-licensed phlebotomist. The physician-reviewed Smart Report is released within 24 hours of the sample reaching our EIAC-accredited laboratory.