(a) A health professional may, in addition to treating a patient, provide expedited partner therapy to the partners of the patient if all of the following requirements are met:

Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes 453-52

  • Expedited partner therapy: means the indirect treatment of partners of a patient who has been diagnosed as having a sexually transmitted disease through the dispensing or prescribing of antibiotic therapy for the treatment of the partners to the patient without the physical examination of the partners by a health professional. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 453-51
  • Health professional: means any of the following:

    (1) A person licensed or otherwise authorized by law to practice medicine or surgery under this chapter and whose scope of practice includes the diagnosis and treatment of sexually transmitted diseases;

    (2) An advanced practice registered nurse with prescriptive authority under chapter 457 and duly licensed in the State; or

    (3) For the purpose of dispensing antibiotic therapy under this section, a pharmacist who is licensed or otherwise authorized to engage in the practice of pharmacy under chapter 461. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 453-51

  • Sexual activity: means sexual intercourse, cunnilingus, fellatio, anal intercourse, or any other intrusion, however slight, of any part of a person's body or of any object into the genital or anal openings of another person's body, but emission of semen is not required. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 453-51
  • Sexually transmitted disease: means chlamydia, gonorrhea, or other sexually transmitted diseases that are or may be recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for expedited partner therapy. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 453-51
(1) The patient has a laboratory-confirmed or suspected clinical diagnosis of a sexually transmitted disease;
(2) The patient indicates that the patient has partners with whom the patient has engaged in sexual activity within the sixty-day period immediately preceding the diagnosis of a sexually transmitted disease; and
(3) The patient indicates that the patient’s partners are unable or unlikely to seek clinical services in a timely manner.
(b) A health professional who provides expedited partner therapy as authorized in this section shall do all of the following:

(1) Dispense or prescribe antibiotic therapy in the name of the partners, if known, without the physical examination of the partners by the health professional. Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, if the name of the partners are not known, the health professional shall dispense or prescribe the antibiotic therapy in the name of “Expedited Partner Therapy”;
(2) Convey to the patient that it is important to notify the patient’s partners of the patient’s diagnosis and that it is important for the partners to obtain medical care for a complete evaluation, testing for sexually transmitted diseases, counseling, and treatment;
(3) Distribute to the patient the information sheet developed pursuant to § 453-53; and
(4) Follow all Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines related to the practices and recommendations for expedited partner therapy.
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