FOR HEALTH PRACTITIONERS
PrEP Support for Doctors
Other Sexually Transmissible Infection
Up-to-Date Resources for Clinicians (Links)
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Primary Clinical Care Manual -10 Edition - Section 7: Sexual & Reproductive Health | QLD Government
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Contact Tracing for Sexually Transmissible Infections | QLD Health
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Australian Consensus STI Testing Guidelines for Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander People | ASHM
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National Cervical Screening Program | Department of Health
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A Guide to My Health Record: for BBV & STI Healthcare Providers to Support Their Patients | ASHM
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Guide to Offering STI Testing to People Aged 16 Years attending Clinical Services | QLD Health
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Guideline to Reporting & Responding Suspicion 2018 review | QLD Health
Clinicians Guide to Prescribing PrEP for Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander People
Any GP can prescribe PrEP. You don’t have to be an s100 prescriber.
CTG PBS Co-Payment Measure
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Practice is participating in Indigenous Health Incentive Practice Incentives Program (PIP)
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Patient is eligible and is registered for the measure
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Concession: no cost. No concession: $10/month
Test
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STI/BBV screen, eGFR and urine protein creatinine ratio, LFTs, pregnancy test
Prescribe
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Script to be provided to patient for daily, continuing, oral dose of co-formulated tenofovir and emtricitabine (TD*/FTC)
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PBS streamlined authority: 7580
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Annotated CTG
Educate
Monitor
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Every three months as noted in the Australian PrEP guidelines.
For the “Decision Making in PrEP” tool, click HERE
Assess Eligibility & Risk
Men Who Have Sex With Men (MSM)
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Receptive condomless intercourse (CLI) with casual male partner
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Rectal gonorrhoea, rectal chlamydia, or infectious syphilis
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Methamphetamine use
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CLI with a regular HIV+ partner who is not on treatment and/or has a detectable viral load
Trans & Gender Diverse People
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Receptive CLI with casual male partner
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Rectal or vaginal gonorrhoea, chlamydia, or infectious syphilis
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Methamphetamine use
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CLI with a regular HIV+ partner who is not on treatment and/or has a detectable viral load
Heterosexual People
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Receptive CLI with casual male MSM partner
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A woman in a serodiscordant heterosexual relationship, who is planning natural conception in the next 3 months
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CLI with a regular HIV+ partner who is not on treatment and/or has a detectable viral load
People Who Inject Drugs
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Shared injecting equipment with an HIV+ individual or with MSM of unknown HIV status
Contact Tracing Links
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Let Them Know
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Better to Know (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People)
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The Drama Down Under (Men Who Have Sex With Men)
Syphilis Support
Call: 1800 032 238
Email:
South Queensland
QLD-Syphilis-Surveillance-Service@health.qld.gov.au
North Queensland
North-Qld-Syphilis-Surveillance-Centre@health.qld.gov.au
Click HERE for more information