Where To Test

Health Stop Testing and Referral Center

Public sexual health clinic · St Louis, United States

Check hours with the clinic

Can I go now?

Contact the clinic to arrange a visit

Book through the city's Health Stop site or call 314-657-1584.

Can a visitor use it?

Check with the clinic before you go — No residency rule is stated; ask when you book.

What will it cost?

Free for everyone, including visitors

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About

The city health department's downtown testing centre, where HIV and STI testing costs nothing and appointments are booked online.

This clinic doesn’t advertise itself as LGBTQ+ friendly. Most clinics don’t, so this isn’t a sign that it’s unwelcoming. If you’ve been, tell us how you were treated.

Services

HIV self-test kit — Yes
A kit you take away and use yourself.
The city sends free at-home testing kits on request through the same service.
Full STI check — Yes
Chlamydia, gonorrhoea and syphilis (usually with HIV) in one visit.
The centre offers HIV and STI testing; the site names chlamydia, gonorrhoea, hepatitis C, herpes, mpox, trichomoniasis and syphilis among the infections it covers.
Postal self-sampling — Yes
Kit you post to a lab; results by text or online.
Free at-home test kits can be requested through the city's site.
Free condoms & lube — Yes
The city runs a condom finder for free condoms across the St Louis area.

Booking, access & languages

OnlinePhone

Book through the city's Health Stop site or call 314-657-1584.

No insurance required
You can be seen without local insurance or a health card.
Testing is offered at no cost, so no insurance is involved.

Languages: English

Cost

ServiceWhoCost
All services
HIV and STI testing
EveryoneFree
The city describes Health Stop as free STI and HIV testing, and says it also sends free at-home testing kits and gives out free condoms. Nothing is said about the cost of treatment.

Prices are shown in the local currency as stated by the source on the date shown. “Consultation” is often charged separately from tests.

United States: good to know

  • What visitors pay. The City of St. Louis Department of Health runs Health Stop on Market Street, which offers HIV and STI testing at no cost and also sends free home testing kits and free condoms. Vivent Health's Locust Street clinic offers testing, PrEP and PEP but publishes no prices.

Emergency number: 911

Sources & last checked

Last checked 22 Sep 2026.

  • e1 · Published by City of St. Louis Department of Health · 22 Sep 2026 · healthstopstl.com — The health department's own Health Stop site: address 1520 Market Street Suite 1625 (first floor), phone 314-657-1584, free STI and HIV testing, online appointment booking, free at-home test kits, condom finder and PrEP and PEP information pages.

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