Resources for
Health Providers
Within these pages you'll find information on STD management, clear guidance for mandatory reporting of diseases to our program, and other STD/HIV related resources. Also included in this section are downloadable reporting forms, surveillance reports, and guidance as to how to contact program staff for information such as: reports from our epidemiology unit, patient syphilis titer history from our nursing unit, and STD management consultation from an STD Program physician.
Please note that our Web site also has patient-friendly information in our Resources and STD Information sections that you can direct your patients to. We also provide links to other related public health programs or reproductive health related organizations.
Please remember to report your cases to us! It is of critical importance (and required by law) that you submit timely, completed confidential morbidity reports (CMR) on patients you have diagnosed with chlamydia (including LGV), gonorrhea, syphilis, PID, NGU, and chancroid. The reporting of STDs does not require patient consent and does not contradict the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy Rule.
If the information in these pages does not provide you with the STD information you need to care for your patients, we invite you to call our program at (213) 744-3070.
Thank you for helping us prevent the spread of sexually transmitted diseases!
Clinical Practice Alerts
- Brief Update for Health Care Providers: Community-associated Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) 1/28/08
- Clinical Alert: Gonorrhea Cases Increase in the West: What LA County Providers Can Do to Help Control Gonorrhea 4/9/07
- Clinical Practice Alert: Ensuring an Adequate Supply of Benzathine Penicillin G 6/30/06
STD Diagnosis and Treatment
- CA STD Treatment Guidelines for Adults and Adolescents
From the California STD/HIV Prevention Training Center, 2007 - STD Treatment Guidelines
From the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2006 - Guide to Sexual History Taking
From the California STD/HIV Prevention Training Center, 2001 - The Practitioner's Handbook for the Management of Sexually Transmitted Diseases
From the Seattle STD/HIV Prevention Training Center - The Clinical Approach to the STD Patient
From the National Network of STD/HIV Prevention Training Centers, 2004 - Patient-Delivered Partner Therapy for Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae: Guidance for Medical Providers in California
From the California STD/HIV Prevention Training Center, 2007 - Handout for Patient Delivered Partner Therapy: What You Need to Know About Curing Chlamydia (also available in Spanish)
- Chlamydia (NNPTC Core Curricululm)
From the National Network of STD/HIV Prevention Training Centers - Provider fact sheet: Lymphogranuloma venereum, 1/14/05
- Algorithm for detection and management of LGV in LA County, 1/21/05
- Simplified LA County LGV suspected case report form, 2/11/05
- Public Health Laboratory test requisition form (blank), 2/17/05
- Public Health Laboratory test requisition form (filled-out sample), 2/17/05
- Lymphogranuloma Venereum Among MSM -- Netherlands, 2003-2004 CDC MMWR, 2005
- Fact Sheet for Public Health Personnel: Male Condoms and Sexually Transmitted Diseases
From the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - Summary Guidelines for the Use of Herpes Simplex Virus Type 2 Serologies
From the California STD/HIV Prevention Training Center, 2003 - Guidelines for the Use of Herpes Simplex Virus Type 2 Serologies
From the National Network of STD/HIV Prevention Training Centers, 2003 - Genital Herpes (NNPTC Core Curriculum)
From the National Network of STD/HIV Prevention Training Centers - Los Angeles Support Group for People with Herpes
- Patient-Delivered Partner Therapy for Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae: Guidance for Medical Providers in California
From the California STD/HIV Prevention Training Center, 2007 - Clinical Alert: Gonorrhea Cases Increase in the West: What LA County Providers Can Do to Help Control Gonorrhea
- California Gonorrhea Treatment Guidelines
From the California DHS STD Control Branch, 2006 - California Guidelines for Gonorrhea Screening and Diagnostic Testing Among Women in Family Planning and Primary Care Settings
From the California DHS STD Control Branch, 2005 - Gonorrhea (NNPTC Core Curriculum)
- Hepatitis (NNPTC Core Curriculum)
From the National Network of STD/HIV Prevention Training Centers - STD Screening Guidelines for HIV Positive Persons, 2003
- Community-Onset MRSA Among HIV+ Men Who Have Sex With Men
- Frequently Asked Questions About Rapid HIV Testing
From the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, 2003 - HPV Dear Colleague Letter on HPV Testing and Cervical Cancer Screening
From the US Department of Health and Human Services, 2005 - Human Papilloma Virus (NNPTC Core Curriculum)
From the National Network of STD/HIV Prevention Training Centers - Guidelines for Patient-Delivered Partner Therapy for Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae
From the California DHS STD Control Branch, 2007 - Containing Chlamydia and Gonorrhea: Treating partners via expedited partner therapy can reduce infections
Review article from Southern California Physician, 2007 - Partner Treatment: Medicine to Cure Gonorrhea & Chlamydia
- Partner Treatment: Medicine to Cure Chlamydia
- Chlamydia information card
- Gonorrhea information card
- Pelvic Inflammatory Disease (NNPTC Core Curricululm)
From the National Network of STD/HIV Prevention Training Centers - Evaluating for Primary Syphilis
From the California STD/HIV Prevention Training Center, 2003 - Evaluating for Secondary Syphilis
From the California STD/HIV Prevention Training Center, 2003 - Questions and Answers Regarding Inadvertent Use of Bicillin C-R for Treatment of Syphilis
- Managing Syphilis in the HIV infected Patient
Review article from Current Infectious Diseases, 2004 - Understanding Confidentiality and Minor Consent in California
From the Adolescent Health Working Group, San Francisco Health Plan, 2002 - Urethritis (NNPTC Core Curriculum)
From the National Network of STD/HIV Prevention Training Centers - Vaginitis (NNPTC Core Curriculum)
From the National Network of STD/HIV Prevention Training Centers
General
Chlamydia
Chlamydia - Lymphogranuloma venereum (LGV)
Condoms
Genital Herpes
Gonorrhea
Hepatitis
HIV
HPV
Patient-Delivered Partner Therapy
Pelvic Inflammatory Disease (PID)
Syphilis
Youth Specific
Urethritis
Vaginitis
Reporting Information and Forms
- Confidential Morbidity Report (downloadable form)
- Laboratory Report Forms - for labs only! (downloadable forms)
- Reportable Diseases And Conditions Title 17, California Code of Regulations, Revised July 1, 2007
- Non-gonococcal urethritis (NGU), no longer reportable in California
- HIPAA Privacy Rule and Public Health Guidance from CDC and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2003
- HIV Reporting with Non-Name Code From the LADHS Office of AIDS Programs and Policy, 2006
- STD Surveillance Reports
Continuing Medical Education
Other STD Health Education Resources
- Health Education Unit Brochure
- STD Workshop Schedule and Registration Form
- Presentation Request Form
- Health Fair Request Form
- Written Materials Request Form
- SHE (Sexy..Healthy..Empowered!) Sexual Health Discussion Group for College Women: 2007 Adaptable Curriculum in (MS Word)
- SHE Sample Flyer (MS Word)
- Safer Sex Kit Manual (PDF)
- Don't Use Cards (PDF)
Other Reproductive Health Information
STD/HIV Contact Information
- STD Data request
- STD Record Search/Provider Case Consultation: (213) 744-3106 (Services include: syphilis case record search, lab/disease/treatment consultation, referrals. Staffed M-F, 8am-5pm)
- STD/Hotline (for patients): 1-800-758-0880 Counselors available from 7am-5pm, M-F. Automated 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to provide: information for STD clinics and HIV testing locations, and to order free condom delivery (10 condoms/pkg/request).
- HIV Post-exposure HIV Prevention (PEP) Hotlines PEPline. National Clinicians Post-Exposure Prophylaxis: 1-888-448-4911 (24 hours a day, 7 days a week)
- Warmline-National HIV Telephone Consultation Service: 1-800-933-3413 (M-F 6am-5pm PST; M-F, Voicemail 24 hours a day)
