The department of health shall develop and, upon request, distribute to health professionals subject to this part an information sheet that includes all of the following:

(1) A description of expedited partner therapy and its purpose;

Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes 453-53

  • 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
(2) A notice that an individual who has been treated for a sexually transmitted disease should be retested after treatment to detect possible persistent or recurrent infection, including information on the timing of retesting, as recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention;
(3) A warning about the possible dangers of administering antibiotic therapy to a pregnant individual;
(4) Information about antibiotics dispensed or prescribed and dosages of those antibiotics dispensed or prescribed, as recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention;
(5) A warning about the risk of allergies to and drug interactions with the antibiotics described in paragraph (4);
(6) Information about sexually transmitted diseases, the treatment of sexually transmitted diseases, and the prevention of sexually transmitted diseases;
(7) A notice that the patient and the patient’s partners should abstain from sexual activity for seven days after the patient and the partners have completed the antibiotic therapy;
(8) A notice that the partners should be tested for sexually transmitted diseases;
(9) A notice of the risk to the patient, the partners, and others, including the public health, if a sexually transmitted disease is not completely treated;
(10) A notice of the responsibility of the patient to notify sexual partners of the risk of sexually transmitted diseases and the importance of examination and treatment for sexually transmitted diseases; and
(11) A statement advising any individual who has any questions regarding anything in the information sheet to contact a health professional or the department of health.

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