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If you can't tell them about an STD in person or over the
phone, in Florida there is another option.
Using inSPOT, you can send e-cards
anonymously OR from your email address at:
www.inSPOT.org/Florida

Get
Tested. Get Treated.
Get Going . . .Today!
Get tested for STDs regularly! If you are
sexually active you should be tested for STDs every three months.
Get checked by your physician or visit your local health department to be
tested for a sexually transmitted infection today!
For information about a county health department STD
clinic nearest to you, please
visit our STD clinic directory.
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Public Health
Alert:
Florida Department of Health Issues Notice of Change in
Treatment of Gonorrhea
TALLAHASSEE -
The Florida Department of Health is advising
Florida
practitioners to discontinue use of fluoroquinolones for the treatment of
gonorrhea. The decision is
based on recent data analysis from the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention's (CDC) Gonococcal Isolate Surveillance Project (GISP), a
sentinel surveillance system based in 28 U.S.
cities, including
Miami.
For more information please select:
STD Press Release (PDF 63KB) or
MMWR Update of CDC's Sexually Transmitted
Diseases Treatment Guidelines.
 PRISM:
Using the latest technology to improve STD client management
In January 2007, the Bureau of Sexually Transmitted Disease released a new
web-based application called PRISM (Patient Reporting, Investigation and
Surveillance Manager). PRISM has been designed to receive electronic lab
results from the public labs of the state of Florida. This will decrease the
time frame in which an infection is brought to our attention. Once the
application receives the lab results, the local STD program will be notified
via a task list that a new record has arrived. The STD program supervisor
will then determine whether the patient is a priority case, such as a
pregnant female, a minor under twelve years of age or someone who has been
seen with multiple instances of infection, and then assign it to an STD
Epidemiologist (aka Disease Intervention Specialist). This will be a time
savings of at least a week compared to the old application, STD-MIS, and
provides enhanced patient management tools help the Bureau of STD better
serve Floridians. |