Jersey City Medical Center at Greenville's Counseling and Testing Site (CTS), Center for Comprehensive Care (CCC) and the city of Jersey City will host a free community screening event on Tuesday, National HIV Testing Day.

The event, which will be held at the Mary McLeod Bethune Life Center in Jersey City, will run from 2 to 6 p.m. and it will include HIV testing, information the disease and other related services. The Bethune Life Center is located at 140 Martin Luther King Drive.

National HIV Testing Day is a yearly awareness campaign urging people to learn their status regarding HIV, and this year's theme is "Take the Test, Take Control."

Hudson County has the second highest HIV incidence rate in New Jersey, while the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that 1 in 8 individuals nationally are unaware that they have HIV.

CTS is the largest HIV-testing provider in Hudson County and gives free confidential HIV rapid testing and STD testing to individuals over the age of 13.

Services are provided in English and Spanish.