Public Health Bulletin

Quarterly bulletin incorporating the Communicable Disease Control Branch report.

General

• You've Got What? ~ factsheets on prevention and control of notifiable and other infectious diseases in children and adults (Index of commonly used disease names & useful links)

• Sexual Health

• Communicable Disease Control Branch

• Fight the bite! - mosquitoes

• Tattooing and body piercing

• Chicken pox

• Headlice

• Hepatitis C ~ Q&A ~ 18 languages

• Measles

• Meningococcal Infection

• Pneumococcal disease

• Scabies - Diagnosis and management

• Q fever

• Collecting a faecal sample

Immunisation Index

Publications

• A Practical Guide to the Management of Gastroenteritis Outbreaks in Residential Environments in South Australia - January 2010 (pdf 337kb)

• Sexually Transmitted Diseases in SA 2008

• South Australian HIV Action Plan 2009-2012 (pdf, 600kb)

• South Australian Hepatitis C Action Plan 2009 - 2012 (pdf, 263kb)

• Guidelines for the Investigation of Foodborne Disease for Local Government EHOs

• Sharp & to the point

• CDCB publications index

• CDCB publications archive

Notifiable diseases

• Notification of communicable disease

• List of notifiable diseases (PDF)

• Reporting form for notifiable diseases

• A summary of notifiable diseases in SA

Infection Control

• SA Health's Pandemic Influenza website

• Seasonal flu, avian (bird flu) and pandemic influenza

• Infection Control Reports

Information for GPs & Emergency Departments

Public health alerts & media

Clinical and Public Health Management of Pertussis

Tetanus-prone wound vaccination guide

Meningococcal infection

• Emergency Department Staff be Alert for Meningococcal Disease - A3 poster

• Be Alert for Meningococcal Disease - A4 GP desktop information card

• Meningococcal Season Reminder

Code for the Case Management of Behaviours that Present a Risk for HIV Transmission

Non-Occupational Post-Exposure Prophylaxis (nPEP) for HIV

Commonwealth / National Publication

• National Guidelines for Post-exposure Prophylaxis after Non-occupational Exposure to HIV. Australian Government, Department of Health and Ageing.

South Australian Publications

• Guidelines for the management of non-occupational exposure to HIV

• Standard Operating Procedure 1 - Telephone triage
  Providing telephone triage after non-occupational exposure to HIV

• Standard Operating Procedure 2 for Emergency Response
  Management of clients presenting after non-occupational exposure

• Standard Operating Procedure 3 - Follow-up
  Management of clients presenting for follow-up visits after non-occupational exposure to HIV

• Risk Assessment Protocol for Emergency Departments

Sexual Health Campaign launched

The Australian Government recently launched the National Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI) Prevention Program: Sexual Health Campaign to raise young people’s awareness about the risks of infection and to generate a sense of personal responsibility to help prevent the spread of STIs.