For Providers: Confidential Report of Sexually Transmitted Infections Form

PROVIDERS:
Due to the Bicillin shortage and an increase in syphilis patients, Healthy Concepts Clinic (Galveston County Health District’s [GCHD] STI clinic), will only treat syphilitic patients with Bicillin if they are a newly diagnosed HIV+ patient that has not begun ART.
All pregnant patients with syphilis must be treated with Bicillin by their PCP, or at Coastal Health & Wellness (GCHD’s FQHC).

Doxycycline treatment of syphilis per CDC guidelines:
CDC - Bicillin Shortage
CDC Treatment Guidelines for Syphilis

Disease Intervention Specialists (DIS) protect the health and well-being of the community by educating the public, investigating sexually transmitted infections, and assisting individuals in obtaining diagnostic and treatment services. DIS skills include expertise in case analysis, education and counseling, linkage to care, provider and community engagement, and, critically, contact tracing and partner services.

Services offered through the program include:

• Community education and presentations about the prevention and treatment of sexually transmitted infections, including HIV/AIDS
• Education at health fairs, and community events. Please use this form to request these services.
• Contacting sex partners of people who have tested positive for HIV/STI for examination and treatment.
• Assisting individuals in obtaining examinations, diagnosis, and treatment (if necessary).

What are ‘partner services’ and ‘contact tracing’?

‘Partner services’ are offered to people with STIs, to their partners, and to other people who are at increased risk for infection in an effort to prevent transmission of these infections and to reduce suffering from their complications. The historical focus was to identify and locate the sexual contacts of infected people and other people at risk for behavioral or other factors – ‘contact tracing’ – and then refer them for care and treatment, as appropriate.

The basic partner services process – interviewing people with STIs and others potentially involved in transmission, identifying people still at risk (whether through direct exposure or indirect involvement), and bringing the latter to diagnosis and treatment – has evolved to include a broad view of the clinical and epidemiologic activities needed to help people with STIs.

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