 The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC recommends that all patients should receive information about HIVAIDS and HIV testing orally or in writing at every HIV testing encounter. However, for busy emergency departments EDs, delivering information orally is a barrier to HIV testing, and written brochures likely are not useful for those with lower health or general literacy. Videos might be as or more efficacious than orally-delivered information in improving HIVAIDS and HIV testing knowledge, particularly for those with lower health literacy skills. However, the resources required to show videos might limit their use in EDs. Pictorial brochures are a promising alternative, but are of unknown efficacy. 