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Guidelines
Florida Administrative Code 64D-3
64D-3, F.A.C. (HIV & AIDS)
If you are a physician or health care provider, in Pinellas County or Pasco County, and your patient has recently tested HIV positive (Western Blot or other diagnostic test), please make your patient aware that a disease intervention specialist from the Florida Department of Health in Pinellas County or Pasco County will possibly be contacting them, in the near future, about the following services available:
- HIV Post-test counseling, if needed
- Referrals to HIV health education/financial resources in the community
- Referrals to community resources available for pregnant women
- Partner elicitation/notification (done “anonymously” by the Florida Department of Health staff)
If you have a client that you would not want to be contacted by the local health department then please notify the HIV/AIDS surveillance office as soon as possible at 727-824-6903.
Resources
The following are very useful web sites dedicated to providing current and accurate HIV/AIDS information:
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U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Preventionprovides comprehensive HIV/AIDS information on statistics, transmission, treatment, patient care, prevention, research, disease facts, counseling and testing, funding and national conferences.
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National Prevention Information NetworkA resource for educational materials including fact sheets, FAQs, brochures, videos, books, reports, posters and various other prevention items.
How to send Reporting forms to DOH-Pinellas
If you prefer, you may directly contact our HIV/AIDS surveillance office at 727-824-6903 to report an HIV or AIDS case over the phone. Or else, please print an appropriate case report form, answer all of the questions, and place the HIV/AIDS case report form/s in an envelope marked “Confidential” with the name “Surveillance 3-138” and “Florida Department of Health in Pinellas County” on it. Place that envelope inside another envelope with the following address on it and send it to: