Reporting Requirements
Healthcare providers and facilities must report AIDS, HIV and most other sexually transmitted infections to the Health Department within three working days.
There are two ways to report an infection:
- Fax the Confidential HIV/AIDS Case Report Form (or the STD Case Report form for other infections) to confidential fax.
OR
- Mail the Confidential HIV/AIDS Case Report Form (or the STD Case Report form for other infections) to Washington State Department of Health, Assessment Unit, PO Box 47838, Olympia, WA 98504-7838.
Latest announcements
COVID-19 Related
- CDC Interim STD Treatment Recommendations during COVID-19
- CDC Guidance during disruption of STD clinical services.
- Department of Health and Human Services Dear Provider letter.
Treatment Guidelines
- CDC 2015 STD treatment guidelines.
- 2019 STD treatment updates.
- HHS Dear colleague letter re: Gonococcal treatment update.
HIV/AIDS
- Clinician Consultation Center—HIV/AIDS, PrEP, Perinatal HIV and PEP information from University of California, San Francisco.
- HIV testing page—Washington State Department of Health .
- Transforming Health—CDC resources for healthcare providers treating transgender people living with HIV.
- Prevention Challenges—CDC statistics and information about transgender people and HIV.
- Injection Safety —CDC
- One and Only Campaign —CDC
Disease Information
- CDC Disease Information
- DOH STD data and information
- National STD curriculum self-study training modules.
- CDC clinical and non-clinical education and training.
Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis
- CDC Guidance: PrEP for HIV prevention.
- DOH Guidance: PrEP and PEP for HIV Prevention
- PrEP Watch: data, research and access.
- WHO PrEP implementation guidelines.