STD control in remote Aboriginal communities : a manual for clinic workers / Office of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health, Department of Health and Aged Care
Published
Canberra : Publications Production Unit, Commonwealth Dept. of Health and Aged Care, 1999
1. Introduction -- 2. A checklist for STD control activities -- 3. Mapping the problem -- 4. Requirements for STD control -- 4.1. Adequate access to primary health care -- 4.2. Population registers -- 4.3. Standard treatment protocols and clinical care guidelines -- 4.4. Clinic design, equipment and drug availability -- 4.5. Clinic staff -- 4.6. Regional forums -- 4.7. Keeping up with the rest of the world (or how to avoid reinventing the wheel) -- 5. Single issue strategies versus a comprehensive strategy -- 6. Program planning, management and accountability -- 7. Targeting resources for maximum effect: working with the high risk groups -- 7.1. The May Anderson equation -- 7.2. Core transmission theory -- 8. Clinical services: improving the diagnosis and treatment of STDs -- 8.1. Using the best tests available -- 8.2. Informed consent and informed refusal -- 8.3. Privacy and confidentiality -- 8.4. Improving the quality of our STD control work: things to watch for -- 8.5. Contact tracing -- 8.6. Syphilis registers -- 8.7. Screening for STDs -- 8.8. Sticky labels and treatment protocols: practical aspects of running a community wide STD screen -- 8.9. Reducing the risk of needle stick injury (NSI) -- 8.10. Needlestick and blood accident protocol -- 8.11. HIV testing -- 9. Health hardware -- 9.1. Making condoms an easy choice -- 9.2. Clean needles -- 9.3. Single use equipment for men's ceremonies -- 10. Health promotion -- 10.1. Primary prevention: activities which promote behaviour change -- 10.2. Secondary prevention: activities which increase people's use of existing STD services for diagnosis and treatment -- 10.3. Tertiary prevention: activities which focus on people with STDs -- 11. Training -- 12. Research -- 13. Data collection (surveillance) -- 14. Monitoring and evaluation.ealing -- ch. 4
Summary
Written as a resource for Aboriginal community controlled health services and primary health care organisations; presents a comprehensive STD control and HIV prevention program that was developed and implemented by the Nganampa Health Council; appendices include 'The national Indigenous Australian's sexual health strategy, 1996-97 to 1998-99' and copies of relevant articles from the literaure
Notes
Publication approval number : 2511
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-190)
