Vending machines offering free sexually transmitted infection (STI) kits could boost the numbers getting tested, research suggests. A pilot study on 11 machines found young people in particular picked up the tests and liked the convenience of testing in their own time. The research, published in the journal Sexually Transmitted Infections, examined data for STI kits and separate HIV kits installed in vending machines across the English cities of Brighton and Bristol for a year. To obtain a test, people had to answer six questions (such as age, gender and time since last test) and enter a code …