Illinois Administrative Code › Title 77 - PUBLIC HEALTH › Part 693 - CONTROL OF SEXUALLY TRANSMISSIBLE INFECTIONS CODE › Section 693.10 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 28, July 12, 2024
"Act" means Illinois Sexually Transmissible Disease Control Act
				[410 ILCS
				325 ].
"Blood Bank" means any facility or location at which blood or
				plasma is procured, furnished, donated, processed, stored or
				distributed.
"Certified Local Health Department" means a local health
				department that is certified pursuant to 77 Ill. Adm. Code
				600.210 of the Certified Local
				Health Department Code.
"Contact" means:
An individual who has been in direct sexual contact with an
				individual infected with a sexually transmitted infection (STI);
An individual who has been in direct sexual or needle contact
				with a person with AIDS or HIV infection;
An individual who has undergone artificial insemination, a
				blood transfusion or an organ or tissue transplantation donated by a person
				with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection.
"Critical Period" means the time interval for which an
				individual infected with an STI is asked to recall sexual or needle-sharing
				contacts. Ideally, the critical period covers the time from the earliest date
				an individual could have been infected with an STI up to the date of diagnosis
				or treatment.
The critical period for syphilis is based on the disease stage
				at the time of diagnosis:
Primary - four months and one week;
Secondary - eight months (34 weeks);
Early non-primary non-secondary (NPNS) - 12 months, unless a
				credible primary or secondary history can be established.
The critical period for chlamydia, gonorrhea and chancroid is
				60 days before the date of specimen collection and should be extended through
				the date of treatment if the patient was not treated at the time the specimen
				was collected.
The critical period for HIV is 12 months before the date of
				diagnosis.
"Department" means the
Illinois Department of Public
				Health
. (Section 3 of the Act)
"Designated Agent" means an organization designated by the
				Department, or a local health department in cities with a population of
				1,000,000 or more, to conduct public health activities under a written
				agreement with the Department.
"Epidemiologic Information" means information, obtained through
				the counseling and partner services process, regarding possible exposure to an
				STI.
"Expedited Partner Therapy" means to prescribe, dispense,
				furnish or otherwise provide prescription antibiotic drugs to the partner or
				partners of persons clinically diagnosed as infected with a sexually
				transmissible infection, without physical examination of the partner or
				partners.
"Exposure-Prone Invasive Procedure" means an invasive procedure
				involving digital palpation of a needle tip in a body cavity, or the
				simultaneous presence of a health care professional's fingers and a needle or
				other sharp instrument or object in a poorly visualized or highly confined
				anatomical site.
"Health Care Contact" means any the following:
An individual who has undergone
exposure-prone
invasive procedures performed by an HIV infected health care
professional when
the Department has determined that there is or may
				have been potential risk of HIV transmission from the health care
professional
to that individual;
A health care
professional
who has
				performed
exposure-prone
invasive procedures for a person
				infected with HIV
when
the Department has determined that
				there is or may have been potential risk of HIV transmission from the infected
				person to the health care
professional. (Section
				5.5(c) of the
				Act)
"Health Care Facility" means any institution, building or
				agency or portion of any institution, building or agency, whether public or
				private (for-profit or nonprofit), that is used, operated or designed to
				provide health services, medical treatment or nursing, rehabilitative or
				preventive care to any person or persons.
"Health Care Professional"
means any of the
				following:
A physician licensed to practice medicine in all its
				branches;
a licensed physician assistant;
a licensed advanced practice registered nurse;
[410 ILCS
				325/3(4) ]
a licensed dentist
;
a licensed podiatrist;
a licensed nurse or other person licensed or certified to
				provide health care services of any kind; or
an individual certified to provide HIV testing and counseling
				by a state or local public health department.
"HIV Infection" means infected with HIV, as evidenced by a
				positive or reactive supplemental laboratory test result.
"HIV Test" means an HIV test method approved by the federal
				Food and Drug Administration (FDA) or validated under a laboratory's Clinical
				Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (CLIA) certification.
"Invasive Procedure" means surgical entry into tissues,
				cavities or organs or repair of major traumatic injuries associated with any of
				the following:
An operating or delivery room, emergency department, or
				outpatient setting, including both physicians' and dentists' offices;
Cardiac catheterizations and angiographic procedures;
Vaginal or cesarean delivery or other invasive obstetrical
				procedure during which bleeding may occur; or
Manipulation or excision of any oral or perioral tissue,
				including tooth structure, during which bleeding or the potential for bleeding
				exists.
"Isolation" means the physical separation and confinement of an
				individual who is infected or reasonably believed to be infected with an STI
				from non-isolated individuals to prevent the transmission of the STI to
				non-isolated individuals.
"Laboratory" means a CLIA-approved or -licensed facility, other
				than a blood bank, at which tests are performed to determine the presence of
				infection with an STI.
"
Local Health
Department" means
the
				full-time official health department or board of health having jurisdiction
				over a particular area
. (Section 3 of the Act)
"Noncompliant" means that a person who is infected with an STI
				and is aware of his/her infection and is engaging in behaviors or activities
				that place others at risk of exposure to the STI.
"Partner Services" means services offered to persons diagnosed
				with HIV, syphilis, gonorrhea or chlamydia and to their partners. These
				services include, but are not limited to, interviewing infected individuals to
				elicit and subsequently notify sex and needle sharing partners of possible
				exposure or potential risk of exposure to infection, facilitating testing and
				treatment of exposed partners, and providing referrals to support services as
				needed.
"Quarantine" means the act of making a place or a location
off limits to the public to prevent the probable spread of
syphilis, gonorrhea, chlamydia, HIV or chancroid. (Section 7(a) of the
				Act)
"Self-Refer" means for a person infected with an STI to notify
				his/her contacts of their possible exposure to an STI and to refer contacts to
				appropriate health care professionals for counseling, testing and treatment, if
				indicated.
"Sexually Transmissible Infection" or "STI" means, as defined
				by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, an infection that can be
				acquired or transmitted through sexual activity.
"Susceptible" means capable of becoming infected with the
				etiologic agent of an STI.
"Suspected Case" means a person who is reasonably believed to
				be infected with an STI, based on medical or epidemiologic information.
"Treatment" means services for prevention, diagnosis and
				medical management of STIs, including examination, laboratory testing,
				medication, counseling and immunization.