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Memphis ranks 4th among all U.S. MSAs for new HIV infections and has been identified in the CDC's Ending the HIV Epidemic Initiative as a high HIV burden geographic focus area. The Memphis Ryan White Part A Program conducted a pilot project among adults seeking services in Memphis emergency and transitional housing shelters to offer on-site, rapid HIV testing. In this paper we describe the results from this aforementioned pilot study, including the rate of HIV test acceptance and potential factors associated with a history of HIV testing in Memphis.<\/jats:p><jats:p><jats:bold>Methods:<\/jats:bold> Community-engaged research approaches were employed <jats:italic>via<\/jats:italic> a partnership between the local health department, a federally qualified faith-based health center, and an academic university. An interviewer-administered survey to measure potential factors associated with HIV testing history and voluntary HIV testing services were offered to adults living in transitional housing establishments. Bivariate chi-square analyses were performed to determine the association between predisposing, enabling, and need variables with HIV testing history in the past 12 months.<\/jats:p><jats:p><jats:bold>Results:<\/jats:bold> Survey respondents (<jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic> = 109) were mostly cisgender male (<jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic> = 96; 88.1%), African American (<jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic> = 79; 72.5%) and reported engaging in condomless sex in the past 12 months (<jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic> = 55; 50.5%). Acceptability and uptake of HIV testing was high (<jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic> = 97; 89.0%).<\/jats:p><jats:p><jats:bold>Conclusions:<\/jats:bold> Implementing rapid HIV testing programs outside of traditional health care settings is a strategy that can be used to engage high-risk individuals and those unaware of their HIV status to get tested. 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