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Program Operations Guidelines for STD Prevention
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Leadership and Program Management Recommendations

STRATEGIC PLANNING (L-1)

• STD program management should develop and maintain statements of mission, vision, and values.
• STD program management should develop strategic plans.

PROGRAM MANAGEMENT: OPERATIONAL PLANNING AND EVALUATION (L-3)

• The STD program should establish and maintain a system for evaluating each component of the intervention program.

RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT AND MANAGEMENT (L-5)

• Management should establish appropriate policies and actions that recognize the importance and requirements for training, professional development, and career development programs.

ADVOCACY, MEDIA RELATIONS, & LEGISLATION (L-6)

• Each program should have a system to ensure that laws affecting STD prevention are routinely reviewed and revised, or developed, as necessary.
• Each state should have a complete set of legal authorities (statute or regulation with statutory authority) that contributes to the goals of STD prevention and reflects both sound scientific and technological developments. This set of legal authorities should include, but are not limited to, the following:
  • STD definitions
  • Morbidity reporting of defined diseases to include reporting of name, address, disease, sex, age, race, and source of report, date of report, and date of test
  • Laboratory reporting of positive tests to include date of report, date of test, name of physician, patient's name, age, race, sex, test performed, and test results
  • Confidentiality of STD records to the maximum extent legally possible including exemption from subpoena
  • Prenatal testing for STDs to include at least one serologic test for syphilis. In high morbidity areas and outbreak situations, serologic tests should be performed during the first and third trimester of pregnancy and at delivery
  • Ophthalmia neonatorum prophylaxis
  • Permission for minors to authorize their own STD examinations and treatment without parental consent and holding this and related information absolutely confidential

PARTNERSHIPS AND COLLABORATIONS (L-8)

• STD prevention programs should be partners with groups such as reproductive health, schools, corrections facilities, and religious organizations.
• STD programs should have a system to assure ongoing interaction with all agencies, including CBOs, that may affect STD prevention.
• STD programs should establish referral arrangements for STD prevention activities with appropriate service providers.

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