HIV Counseling and Testing Providers

Each participant must select the pre-registration link, select date, and fill out the form.

Complete the Participant Agreement Disclaimer and take the two online course pre-requisites prior to the final registration for the half day virtual HIV/AIDS 500/501 course: 

1. FDOH HIV/AIDS 500 The Basics of HIV/AIDS Counseling, Testing, and Linkage
2. FDOH HIV/AIDS 501 Prevention Counseling, Testing, and Linkage.

The participant must have completed the HIV/AIDS 500 Online and HIV/AIDS 501 online courses no longer than six months prior to registration. Both certificates of completion from online courses and Participant Agreement Disclaimer are required to be sent together with pre-registration form before you receive the final registration. Please email all documents to Test.Miami@FLHealth.gov. We no longer accept requests filled out by supervisor/managers.

Registration deadline is one week prior to training unless training reaches capacity. Once complete, you will receive an email with the location of the training.

• This is a half day virtual online training from 8:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
• You must be in attendance and be able to participate in all activities which includes the use of cameras, microphones, polls, and chats. If you do not have access to these requirements, please contact us to select a new date (no sharing computers).
• Those coming in late at the beginning or those leaving early will be asked to leave and repeat the training at an alternative date.
• Please remind your supervisor/manager that you cannot do other work while in training.
• This training is for certification. If you are away from the training for more than a few minutes, you will also be asked to leave and select an alternative date.

All post-training (practicum) requirements need to be completed within 60 days of the HIV/AIDS 500/501 virtual online training. All counselors will observe and perform a minimum of one pre-test counseling session, one HIV-negative post-test counseling session, and one HIV-positive post-test counseling session with a certified HIV counselor at a registered HIV testing site in Miami-Dade County. Role playing is not accepted for this practicum. Please send in your practicums yourselves, supervisors/managers can be copied.

HIV/AIDS 500/501 – Prerequisite and pre-registration form

• HIV/AIDS 500 Online Prerequisite Course (TRAIN Florida)
• HIV/AIDS 501 Online Prerequisite Course (TRAIN Florida)
• Participant Agreement

Virtual training is available every Thursday at 2 p.m.

Step 1 – Training

Step 2 – Access Request

To maintaining data security, access control, to ensure that our records accurately reflect your role and assigned facility/facilities, and in compliance with DOH Information Security and Privacy Policy, complete and email a CTLS Access Request to Test.Miami@FLHealth.gov.

This form is designed to collect essential information regarding your access requirements and permissions within the CTLS application.

CLTS training manual

• CTLS 1628 Module User Instruction Manual
• CTLS 1628 Confirmatory Test Instruction Manual
• CTLS Chat Support App Manual
• CTLS Facility Renewal Process Manual

Annual participation is required for recertification of all HIV counselors and testers in the county and state. Recertification is required to continue HIV testing.

This training is only available to certified HIV testing counselors.

All counselors need to pre-register themselves. We are not accepting/managers requests or sharing computers with others including those not pre-registered. You will have to have filled out the final link to your registration three days before the 501-update training so that our guest speaker will have the registration list and how many participants they will have. No late requests will be accepted.

You must attend the entire training to get credit for attending. Attendance is monitored and those joining late, not participating, or leaving early will not get credit. You must be able to speak and participate in online chats and/or polls. Certificates will be emailed to you directly.

If you missed the expiration date on your certificate, you will have to retake the HIV/AIDS 500-501 training (you will not have to do the practicum again unless it has been more than three years since you had an update) and after you complete this, you will then have to attend a virtual live 501 Update session within 60 days to be up to date with your certification.

Please fill out the pre-registration form and select a date from the drop-down list.

Rapid HIV trainings are only available to certified HIV test counselors.

This is a virtual online training offered once every quarter from 9 – 11 a.m., presenting the three rapid test brands – OraQuick, SureCheck, and INSTI.

There will also be a practicum. This gives you an opportunity to work with a certified HIV rapid test counselor at your site, running the controls and doing the testing until you feel comfortable doing it yourself. All training requirements need to be completed within 60 days.

Rapid HCV training is only available to certified HIV test counselors. When you have registered, you will be sent an email with instructions.

There will also be a practicum. This gives you an opportunity to work with a certified HCV rapid test counselor at your site, running the controls and doing the testing until you feel comfortable doing it yourself. All training requirements need to be completed within 60 days.

Register for the HIV Capacity Development Academy organized by the Florida Department of Health in Miami-Dade County.

Location: Little Haiti Cultural Center, 212 NE 59th Terrace, Miami, FL 33137
Dates and Times: January 22, February 20, and March 20, 2026; from 8:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Facilitators: Carolina Alcala, Marco Torrealba, and Juliana Shapiro

• Dedicated phone line for questions on HIV Test – Treat – Rapid Access (TTRA):
  Contact us at 786-732-TTRA (8872)

• Ryan White Linkage Resource Guide
• Ryan White Part A Services

• Tips for Ordering Rapid Test Kits
  Should be a minimum of 10 days from when the order form is received. We will not use an overnight courier for any orders except controls if applicable.

• INSTI Rapid HIV Test Logs
• OraQuick Advance Rapid HIV Test Logs
• SURE CHECK Rapid HIV Test Logs

• OraQuick Rapid HCV Test Logs
• Hepatitis C Virus Rapid Test Risk Assessment (English)
• Hepatitis C Virus Rapid Test Risk Assessment (Spanish)
• Rapid HCV Testing Program Implementation Guide

For OraQuick HCV orders, please contact Test.Miami@FLHealth.gov.