Disease Reporting

HIV/STD Program

HIV/STD Program

DSHS HIV/STD Program

DSHS HIV/STD Program

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Disease Reporting

Which sexually transmitted diseases do health care providers and laboratories need to report in Texas?

Texas Law and Administrative Code requires health care providers to report:

NOTE: Communicable disease reporting is exempt from HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996).

HIV and AIDS Reporting

Acute HIV

How do I report a case of acute HIV?

Call your local reporting authority within one working day.
 

HIV in Adults

How do I report non-acute HIV or AIDS cases among adults or adolescents ages 13 and older?

Submit a completed Adult HIV/AIDS Confidential Case Report Form (DSHS 13-13674) to your local reporting authority within seven calendar days. Contact your local reporting authority to get a copy of the Adult Case Report Form.

What information must I include on the Adult HIV/AIDS Confidential Case Report Form?

  1. Demographics
  2. Residence at diagnosis
  3. Facility at diagnosis
  4. Personal history
  5. Lab tests
  6. Clinical status
  7. Medical treatment
  8. Testing and treatment history
     

HIV in Children

How do I report non-acute HIV or AIDS cases among children ages 12 or younger?

Submit a completed Texas Pediatric HIV/AIDS Confidential Case Report Form (DSHS 13-13675) to your local reporting authority within seven calendar days. Contact your local reporting authority to get a copy of the Pediatric Case Report Form.

How do I report an infant that may have been perinatally exposed to HIV?

Submit a completed Texas Pediatric HIV/AIDS Confidential Case Report Form (DSHS 13-13675) to your local reporting authority within seven calendar days. Contact your local reporting authority to get a copy of the Pediatric Case Report Form.

Complete a Pediatric Case Report Form for:

  1. Children born to an HIV infected mother (i.e. perinatally HIV exposed)
  2. Children with confirmed HIV infection
  3. Children that meet the pediatric AIDS case definition
  4. Children who have seroreverted (lost maternal antibodies)

Syphilis Reporting

How do I report primary and secondary syphilis cases?

Call your local reporting authority within one working day. In addition, submit a completed Confidential Report of Sexually Transmitted Diseases Form (STD-27) to your local reporting authority within seven calendar days.

How do I report non-primary and non-secondary syphilis cases?

Submit a completed Confidential Report of Sexually Transmitted Diseases Form (STD-27) to your local reporting authority within seven calendar days.

Chlamydia, Gonorrhea, and Chancroid Reporting

How do I report chlamydia, gonorrhea, and chancroid cases?

Submit a completed Confidential Report of Sexually Transmitted Diseases Form (STD-27) to your local reporting authority within seven calendar days.

Reporting Point of Care (Rapid) HIV and STD Test Results

How do I report the results for point of care tests?

Submit a completed Confidential Report of Sexually Transmitted Diseases Form (STD-27) to your local reporting authority within seven calendar days.

HIV/STD Reporting for Laboratories

How do public health, hospital, commercial, and other laboratories report the results for each specimen that yields evidence of a suspected STD?

Submit a completed Notification of Reportable Laboratory Test Results for STDs, including HIV Form (STD-28) to your local reporting authority. Contact your local reporting authority to get a copy of form STD-28. Contact the Electronic Laboratory Report Coordinator at hivstd@dshs.texas.gov to learn more about reporting laboratory results electronically.

Complete STD-28 for:

  1. Any specimen derived from a human body that yields microscopic, culture, serologic, or any other evidence of an STD (including HIV)
  2. All CD4 T-lymphocyte (CD4) results
  3. All HIV viral loads (both detectable and undetectable)
  4. Positive and negative HIV DNA or RNA virologic test results for infants up to three (3) years of age
  5. All supplemental tests for syphilis and HIV that result from an initial positive screening test, regardless of result (positive and negative)
  6. All HIV nucleotide sequences

Submit syphilis test results within three (3) working days and all other reportable STD (including HIV) test results within seven (7) calendar days.

HIV/STD Reporting by Insurance Companies

Insurance companies use the Notification of Positive HIV Status form to report a positive HIV test. DSHS uses this information to perform public health follow up. DSHS collects a processing fee of $25.00 for this service.

Hepatitis C Reporting

Report Hepatitis C (acute) within one week to 800-705-8868.

Helpful Links Regarding HIV and STD Reporting

DSHS List of Notifiable Conditions