The Tutu Tester mobile unit provides a free comprehensive health service to under serviced communities. It is in the field daily offering nutrition and healthy life-style education, HIV counselling and testing, point of care CD4 testing, screening for tuberculosis, and a range of general health screening tests. The aim is to improve the health of individuals in vulnerable communities and to normalise HIV testing.


The primary focus of the project is to reduce the risk of HIV acquisition and transmission in all tested clients irrespective of positive or negative HIV status. The unit has covered many areas servicing the public at transport hubs, farms, factories, hotels, gay bars, and sporting events to name a few. Clients register at the unit through a finger print biometric system ensuring confidentiality. A Pima analyser measures the CD4 count of clients who test HIV positive giving a result within 20 minutes.