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

Factsheets

• Fight the bite! - mosquitoes

• Body piercing

• Chicken pox

• Headlice

• Hepatitis C ~ Q&A ~ 18 languages

• Measles

• Pneumococcal

• Scabies - Diagnosis and management

• Q fever

• Collecting a faecal sample

Immunisation Index

Notifiable diseases

• Notification of communicable disease

• List of notifiable diseases (PDF)

• Reporting form for notifiable diseases

• A summary of notifiable diseases in SA

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

Commonwealth / National Publications

• 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

Publications

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

• Guidelines for the Management of Infectious Gastroenteritis in Aged Care Facilities

• CDC Bulletin

• Sharp & to the point

• Staff publications in journals

• CDC Branch Annual Summaries

• Other CDCB publications

• Related publications (www links)