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STI/HIV Prevention Program
STI/HIV Prevention
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Partner Notification
The Salt Lake Valley Health Department's STI/HIV 
Prevention Program offers partner notification services to anyone who tests positive for chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis, or HIV.
The partner notification system ensures confidential testing and treatment services to any person who may have been exposed to HIV or another STI through direct contact with a confirmed case.
If a patient tests positive for HIV or another STI, he or she may choose to contact their partner(s) directly and refer them to our program for free testing and treatment. If any patient wishes to remain anonymous, but wants their partners to know they have been exposed and need to be tested, they can request the assistance of a disease investigator with the health department. The role of the disease investigator is to get the sexual and needle-sharing partners to free testing and treatment services.
The Salt Lake Valley Health Department STI/HIV program ensures anonymity for all of its patients. It is important to know that if a disease investigator contacts the partners of anyone diagnosed with an STI, the disease investigator may not provide any information on the original patient that referred them.
Disease investigators are extensively trained on how to protect everyone's personal information and work to make it clear that the main purpose of the partner notification system is to notify people that they may have been exposed to an infectious disease so they can access free testing and treatment services at the health department.
Partner notification is conducted for all cases of chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis, and HIV that are diagnosed anywhere in Salt Lake County, including the private medical community.