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Administrative Measures For The Prevention And Treatment Of Stds

Original Language Title: 性病防治管理办法

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Administrative measures for the prevention and treatment of STDs

    (November 23, 2012 Decree promulgated as of January 1, 2013, 89th) Chapter I General provisions

    Popular first to prevent and control the spread of sexually transmitted diseases, the protection of human health, in accordance with the People's Republic of China Law on infectious disease prevention and control (hereinafter referred to as the communicable disease prevention law) and the HIV/AIDS Ordinance provides that these measures are formulated. Article STDs is sexual contact as the main route of transmission of the disease.

    Sexually transmitted diseases in these measures, including the following categories:

    (A) the provisions of the law on prevention of infectious diseases of class b infectious disease syphilis and gonorrhea;

    (B) the genital tract Chlamydia trachomatis infection, genital warts, genital herpes;

    (C) the Ministry of health according to the degree of disease, prevalence and other factors, determine the need to manage other sexually transmitted diseases.

    HIV/AIDS prevention work in accordance with the relevant provisions of the regulations of the AIDS prevention and control.

    Article STD adhere to the policy of putting prevention first and combining prevention, follow the prevention, scientific management, graded according to law responsible, professional guidance, principles of partnership, social participation.

    Article fourth of sexually transmitted diseases and AIDS prevention and control work combining STD prevention into AIDS coordination mechanism at all levels, integration of prevention resources, the implementation of comprehensive prevention and control of STD and AIDS. Fifth Ministry of health is responsible for the national disease prevention and control.

    According to the need for national STD prevention planning; determine the need to manage the list of sexually transmitted diseases, determined and announced to be included in the b class, c class infectious diseases management of venereal disease.

    Local health administrative departments at and above the county level shall be responsible for the sexually transmitted diseases prevention and control in the administrative areas, in accordance with these measures and the national sexually transmitted disease control program, combined with the local STD prevalence and control needs, develop and implement the administrative regional disease prevention and control plan.

    Health Administrative Department should be led by the people's Governments at the same level, management and service system establishment and improvement of prevention and treatment of STDs, sexually transmitted disease prevention and treatment into basic public health services strengthening STD prevention team, responsible for requirements for the prevention and treatment of STDs, organization of STD prevention and control.

    Sixth administrative departments for public health shall encourage and support social organizations are involved in STD prevention and control, health education, behavioral intervention, psychological support and social care activities.

    Encourage and support health STD prevention and control, research and other relevant institutions and research and academic exchange, participating in STD prevention public service activities.

    Seventh medical universities, medical personnel training and medical examinations, STD prevention policies and knowledge should be integrated into medical education, residency training, continuing education and other training and medical examination of the content. Eighth article of any unit or individual shall discriminate against venereal disease patients and their families.

    Venereal disease patients medical treatment, schooling, employment, marriage and other lawful rights and interests are protected by law.

    Chapter II Organization and personnel

    Nineth health administrative departments shall, in accordance with the local demand for sexually transmitted disease prevention and control, specified assume control of sexually transmitted diseases prevention and control of disease prevention and control institutions, and rational business planning, STD diagnosis and treatment of medical institutions.

    Tenth China's Center for disease control and prevention's role in the prevention and treatment of STDs are:

    (A) assisting the Ministry of Health established a national disease control plans;

    (B) guide the national disease prevention and control, STD surveillance, epidemiological analysis and management, training, prevention and treatment evaluation work;

    (C) organizations develop and refine technical specifications such as STD and laboratory testing, STD laboratory quality management, regular STD diagnostic reagents in clinical application of quality evaluation.

    11th provincial districts of the city and county-level disease prevention and control institutions in the prevention and treatment of sexually transmitted diseases is responsible for:

    (A) Organization and expert to assist the health administrative departments at respective administrative areas of sexually transmitted diseases prevention and control plan, STD surveillance, epidemiological investigation, analysis and management of outbreaks, training and other work;

    (B) organizing and guiding lower-level disease prevention and control institutions and social organization of STD prevention education, vulnerable to STD risk behaviour population interventions;

    (C) the Organization to carry out the administrative area of STD laboratory quality management.

    12th medical institutions shall actively offer STD services, convenient for patients.

    STD diagnosis and treatment in medical institutions of business shall obtain medical subjects associated with the diagnosis and treatment of sexually transmitted diseases, determine the appropriate Department, and subject to the following conditions:

    (A) with appropriate diagnosis and treatment of places, including offices, treatment rooms and clinical laboratory;

    (B) necessary for STD diagnosis and treatment, disinfection and sterilization of equipment, facilities and medicines;

    (C) qualified according to law, and STD trained qualified personnel.

    13th STD diagnosis and treatment medical agencies operating functions are:

    (A) based on the STD diagnostic standards and technical regulations on sexually transmitted diseases in patients with diagnosed or suspected patients in treatment, and reported outbreaks;

    (B) the STD prevention awareness, health education, counselling and intervention as necessary;

    (C) assist in the administrative departments of public health STD clinic business training;

    (D) laboratory quality control;

    (E) assisting the CDC STD outbreak investigation and epidemiological work.

    14th provincial health administrative departments shall organize regular STD diagnosis and treatment and prevention and control of professional training, and evaluation.

    Administrative departments of public health and the society for Dermatology, obstetrics and Gynecology, urology training in related disciplines, such as physicians, should include sexually transmitted diseases prevention knowledge and professional and technical training.

    15th medical personnel STD clinic services, should be qualified according to law, and there should be regular STD prevention and control knowledge and professional technical training.

    Agency personnel to carry out disease prevention and control of sexually transmitted diseases prevention and control, there should be regular STD prevention and control knowledge and professional technical training.

    16th local health administrative departments at and above the county level should be made public timely made and sexually transmitted disease diagnosis and treatment medical institution information related subjects.

    STD clinic business publishing medical advertisements of medical institutions should be carried out according to law.

    17th chapter III prevention and control of disease prevention and control institutions and STD services medical institutions should be carried out according to the local STD prevalence, identification of sexually transmitted diseases and health education, STD prevention and control knowledge to the public propaganda.

    Article 18th for disease prevention and control institutions at all levels should adopt a variety of forms in places susceptible to STD risk behaviour population concentrated awareness of sexually transmitted diseases prevention and control knowledge, advocate safe sex, encourages susceptible to STD risk behaviour population regular STD check STD qualified medical institution.

    Article 19th of STD services medical institutions shall provide STD patients with sexually transmitted diseases and reproductive health education, counseling and testing and referral services for other diseases.

    20th of sexually transmitted disease prevention and control work in basic medical and health institutions and social organizations, should be at the local health administration departments unified planning and disease prevention and control institutions, under the guidance of STD risk behaviour population of infection of sexually transmitted diseases, reproductive health advocacy and behavioural interventions, providing consulting and other services.

    Article 21st HIV voluntary counseling and testing institution community methadone maintenance treatment clinics and free counseling and testing for syphilis should be incorporated into routine services; found in the counseling and testing in patients with syphilis, of STD diagnosis and treatment services should be informed of their medical treatment.

    Article 22nd of maternal and child health and midwifery medical institutions of maternal syphilis screening should be testing, counselling, treatment or referral services necessary, prevent the occurrence of congenital syphilis.

    Article 23rd STD patients should take necessary measures to protect and prevent the infection of others, shall not in any way mean to spread sexually transmitted diseases.

    Article 24th STD epidemic-hit areas, according to local health administrative departments, to take measures for general survey and cured in specific populations.

    Diagnosis and treatment of the fourth chapter Article 25th of STD services medical institutions should carry out the responsibility system for doctor in established clinic logs, the patient treatment case register, may be infected with sexually transmitted diseases or STD suspicious symptoms and signs of patients for STDs should be carried out promptly, and no excuse for any reason.

    When patients with sexually transmitted diseases there are serious risks to health and life associated diseases, referring to associated diseases specialist, and STD diagnosis and treatment support. Conditions do not have STD diagnosis and treatment of medical institutions or departments, in screening activities, physical examination, diagnosis and treatment of suspected or diagnosed sexually transmitted disease patients shall be promptly referred to a medical institution have STD condition or disposal in the Department.

    When a patient has serious health and life-threatening diseases, diagnosis and treatment of associated diseases specialist can be arranged to continue, STD diagnosis and treatment operations of medical diagnosis and treatment of sexually transmitted diseases should be given support in institutions or departments.

    26th medical institution and its medical staff to clients related to sexually transmitted diseases examination, should follow the principle of informed consent.

    Business article 27th STD diagnosis and treatment medical institutions shall, in accordance with safe, effective, economical and convenient principle for STD treatment services, priority essential medicines.

    STD diagnosis and treatment operations of medical institutions should be public clinics, testing and prices of medicines, medical equipment and other services, in accordance with the relevant stipulations.

    Treated for basic drug included in the essential drug list and gradually raise the reimbursement rate, STD diagnosis and treatment services into the scope of reimbursement.

    28th medical personnel carrying out STD services, STD diagnosis should be strictly in accordance with the Ministry of Health issued standards and regulatory requirements, collecting the complete history, physical examination, clinical examination and diagnosis and treatment.

    Article 29th of STD services medical personnel should be writing medical record, accurate report card report outbreaks of infectious diseases, reviews on patients with sexually transmitted diseases, provide preventive health education and counseling services, and records.
30th medical personnel carrying out STD services should notify notify sexual relationship with timely and appropriate medical care of patients with sexually transmitted diseases.

    Oriented article 31st STD and maternity care and midwifery medical institutions shall, in accordance with national recommendations for pregnant women infected with syphilis treatment in a timely manner, and provide their children with the necessary preventive treatment and follow-up, syphilis testing service.

    Diagnosed according to the recommended treatment in children with congenital syphilis treatment or referral.

    Article 32nd STD STD clinical examination of the business of medical institutions, it should be standard practice for inspection and quality control procedures, inspection results and reports in accordance with technical specifications, participating in STD laboratory quality evaluation, strengthening the management of laboratory biosafety.

    33rd medical organizations should take measures to prevent iatrogenic infection of sexually transmitted diseases, strengthening occupational safety and protection of medical personnel.

    The fifth chapter monitoring and reporting 34th Chinese Center for disease control and prevention developed the national sexually transmitted disease monitoring programmes.

    Provincial disease prevention and control institutions, according to the National STD surveillance programmes and local STD, sexually transmitted disease programme of monitoring of the implementation of their respective administrative regions organize STD surveillance and investigation, understand the different characteristics and STD trends.

    Article 35th STD is STD responsibilities of medical institutions report business unit medical personnel carrying out STD is STD duty speaker.

    STD duty reporting units shall establish and improve registration and reporting system for STD; STD duty found should report cases of sexually transmitted diseases, the report should be reported outbreaks in a timely manner as and when required.

    Article 36th STD services medical institutions should be combined with epidemiological history, clinical presentation and laboratory test results to make a diagnosis, in accordance with the provisions of the outbreaks have been reported, shall not conceal, misrepresent, and delaying the report outbreaks.

    HIV voluntary counseling and testing institution and community drug treatment should be in accordance with the requirements-gathering and reporting relevant information.

    Medical and health institutions may not disclose the privacy of patients with sexually transmitted disease-related information and materials.

    37th health administrative departments at all levels are responsible for the sexually transmitted disease outbreaks have been reported in the administrative area network construction, provide the necessary security conditions for the normal operation of the network.

    Article 38th of disease control and Prevention STD information reports within the institutions responsible for the administration of business management and technical guidance, the STD information collection, validation, analysis, reporting and feedback, forecasting the epidemic trend, checks the quality of epidemic information report.

    Supervision and administration of the sixth chapter

    39th Department of health is responsible for the supervision and administration of national disease prevention and control, organization of STD prevention and control performance assessment and evaluation. 40th local health administrative departments at and above the county level shall be responsible for monitoring management of STD prevention work within their respective administrative areas, regular STD prevention performance appraisal and supervision.

    Supervision includes:

    (A) implementation of CDC sexually transmitted diseases prevention and control responsibilities;

    (B) the STD clinic business implementation of the responsibilities of medical institutions;

    (C) does not have qualified medical institutions suspected STD diagnosis and treatment referral of patients with sexually transmitted diseases;

    (D) the disease control and prevention and STD diagnosis and treatment of sexually transmitted diseases prevention and control in medical institutions of business training.

    41st administrative departments of public health STD clinic services, medical institutions by validation and assessment, diagnosis and treatment of sexually transmitted diseases should be included in the validation and review content.

    42nd administrative departments for public health shall receive individual or organization to the reports of violations of these measures and dealt with according to law.

    Article 43rd functionaries of health administrative departments when conducting supervision and inspection, shall produce documents; the units under inspection shall cooperate, reflect the situation, provide the necessary information, and may not refuse or impede or concealing.

    44th disease control and Prevention STD business and medical institutions should strengthen the management of sexually transmitted diseases prevention and control in this body, in violation of the staff of the institutions as provided herein shall be determined according to the seriousness of giving criticism and education or appropriate disciplinary action.

    The seventh chapter legal liability

    45th in supervision by health administration departments at or above the county level shall find reporting confirmed or received in violation of these regulations, it shall be corrected and dealt with in a timely manner; on the working poor, irregular management of health care institutions and their staff should be criticized; the persons in charge and other direct liable persons, in light of the circumstances shall be subject to punishment.

    46th health administrative departments at and above the county level shall violate these rules, resulting in sexually transmitted disease outbreak spread, in accordance with the relevant provisions of the law on prevention of infectious diseases for processing constitutes a crime, criminal responsibility shall be investigated according to law.

    47th have not acquired the practising certificate for medical institution without authorization, STD diagnosis and treatment, in accordance with the relevant provisions of the regulations on the administration of medical institution for processing.

    48th medical institutions violating these rules, beyond the range of medical subjects registered STD diagnosis and treatment, in accordance with the regulations on the administration of medical institution and the detailed rules for the implementation of the relevant provisions.

    Medical institution in violation of the regulations, is not in accordance with the relevant provisions of the report outbreaks or conceal, misrepresent, and delaying the report infectious or disclose relevant information, information related to personal privacy of patients with sexually transmitted diseases, in accordance with the relevant provisions of the law on prevention of infectious diseases for processing.

    49th medical institutions offer STD services breach of norm of diagnosis and treatment, health administrative departments at and above the county level shall be ordered to rectify disciplinary warning; fails to change, depending on the seriousness of a 30,000 yuan fine.

    50th physicians in the diagnosis and treatment of sexually transmitted diseases activity in violation of these rules, any of the following circumstances, health administrative departments at and above the county level shall, in accordance with the practitioners 37th handles the relevant provisions of the Act:

    (A) violation of the STD code, causing serious consequences;

    (B) the disclosure of patient privacy, causing serious consequences;

    (C) failing to report sexually transmitted disease outbreaks, causing serious consequences;

    (D) violations of other provisions of this approach, resulting in serious consequences.

    51st nurses in STD activities in violation of this regulation disclosure of patient privacy or orders found violations of law, rules, regulations, medical report or the technical specification is not in accordance with the provisions of and in accordance with the Ordinance the relevant provisions of article 31st of nurses for processing.

    52nd medical institutions in violation of the relevant provisions of article publishing medical advertising involving the diagnosis and treatment of sexually transmitted diseases, health administrative departments at and above the county level in accordance with the provisions of relevant State laws and regulations for processing.

    53rd STD patients in violation of regulations, cause the spread of sexually transmitted diseases, causes damage to the person and property of others, shall bear civil liability constitutes a crime, criminal responsibility shall be investigated according to law.

    The eighth chapter by-laws

    54th health administrative departments of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities can be combined with local conditions, in accordance with the measures of the implementing rules for the regulations.

    55th STD detection quality control of laboratory work in medical institutions in accordance with the relevant provisions of medical and clinical laboratory management and quality control.

    56th article of the way the meaning of the following terms:

    Assume control of sexually transmitted diseases prevention and control of disease control and prevention, public health Administrative Department in accordance with requirements, commitment levels for disease prevention and control of sexually transmitted diseases prevention and control responsibilities Center Hospital for venereal diseases or skin diseases, and the station.

    Susceptible to STD risk behaviour population, refers to extramarital sex, multiple sexual partners, same-sex sexual behavior of people. 57th these measures come into force on January 1, 2013. August 12, 1991 the Ministry of health released the administrative measures for the prevention and treatment of STDs, be abrogated.