Illinois Administrative Code › Title 77 - PUBLIC HEALTH › Part 693 - CONTROL OF SEXUALLY TRANSMISSIBLE INFECTIONS CODE › Section 693.50 - Physical Examination and Medical Treatment for Syphilis, Gonorrhea, Chlamydia, HIV or Chancroid

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 28, July 12, 2024
a The
			 Department and certified local health departments may examine or cause to be
			 examined persons reasonably believed to be infected with or to have been
			 exposed to a reportable STI. (Section 6(a) of the Act)
b Persons with syphilis, gonorrhea,
			 chlamydia, or chancroid shall report for complete treatment to a physician
			 licensed under the provisions of the Medical Practice Act of 1987, or shall
			 submit to treatment at a facility provided by a certified local health
			 department or other public facility until the disease is noncommunicable or the
			 Department or the certified local health department determines that the person
			 does not present a real and present danger to the public health. This
			 subsection shall not be construed to require the Department or the certified
			 local health department to pay for or provide such treatment. (Section 6(b) of
			 the Act)
c Persons with HIV shall
			 report for treatment to a physician licensed under the provisions of the
			 Medical Practice Act of 1987, or shall submit to treatment at a facility
			 provided by a certified local health department or other public facility. This
			 subsection shall not be construed to require the Department or the certified
			 local health department to pay for or provide such treatment. (Section 6(b) of
			 the Act).
1 The certified local health
			 department or designated agent shall attempt to determine whether a person
			 within its jurisdiction whose laboratory test indicates infection with or
			 sexual exposure to syphilis, gonorrhea, chlamydia or chancroid has received
			 medical treatment prescribed and rendered to the extent that the infection is
			 no longer communicable by that person;
2 If a medical examination or appropriate
			 treatment has not been provided, the certified local health department shall
			 request that individual to report for examination or treatment at a specific
			 date, time and location, or otherwise submit verifiable proof of examination or
			 treatment by a specific date. For persons with HIV, if a medical examination or
			 treatment has not been provided, the certified local health department shall
			 request that individual to consider examination, testing and
			 treatment;
3 If the individual is
			 known to have been exposed to an infection listed in subsection (a) within the
			 maximum incubation period, the certified local health department shall request
			 that individual to seek early preventive/presumptive treatment and
			 testing;
4 The certified local
			 health department shall document all unsuccessful and successful attempts to
			 secure a medical examination and appropriate medical treatment and testing for
			 an individual. Documentation shall include the dates, times, locations and
			 forms of communication, including the individual's responses, and a detailed
			 narrative of the process.