Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD)

Welcome to the STD Clinic. As part of Illinois Department of Public Health, Division of Disease Control, the Sexually Transmitted Disease Department’s goal is to reduce the number of new sexually transmissible disease (STD) infections and prevent disease related complications by promoting sexual health education, identifying diseases early, providing timely treatment, implementing partner services, and collaborating with public and private partners.

STD Services

East Side Health District provides screening, counseling, treatment, and partner notification services to persons infected with or suspected of being infected with STDs. Laboratory reporting and surveillance analysis are used to identify and report diseases. Other components include outreach events and notification of at-risk persons residing in other public health jurisdictions. It is important that rapid response teams locate infected persons and their partners to provide appropriate treatment and intervention activities.

STD Reporting and Surveillance

Analyses of STD case rates, trends, and routine surveillance of disease distribution statewide allow for timely response to outbreaks and producing reports as needed. This component includes special analyses of STDs in relationship to broader reproductive health outcomes and HIV/AIDS.

HIV Intervention

Provides screening, counseling, partner counseling, and referral services to persons infected with or suspected of being infected with HIV. This component includes HIV pre-test, post-test counseling, and linkages to other health care services for HIV-infected clients.

Clinic Services

Clinical services are provided in strict confidence and are available to anyone who seeks care for the prevention of Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs). Our clinic is located at 5540 Bunkum Road, Washington Park, Illinois, where we offer STD services on a reasonable and/or no cost basis to adults and adolescents, regardless of their citizenship status. All clients, including adolescents are assured confidential STD clinical services by Illinois Law.

Clinical services for STDs include: health history and risk assessment, physical examination, STD testing as indicated, treatment, and counseling. HIV testing is offered. You will be asked to return to the clinic for test results. If, at the time of your visit, the nurse practitioner diagnoses that you have an STD, you will be provided treatment during the visit, or given a prescription to purchase treatment at a pharmacy. Trained counselors will talk with you about reducing your risk for getting STDs and how to prevent infections from spreading to your partners.

Get Tested!

There are many ways to get answers to your questions about STDs. If you believe you have an STD and would like to be tested you can contact your regular healthcare provider, locate a clinic near you with our handy locator, or contact your local health. Office

Locate a Clinic

If you suspect you have an STD, the first course of action is to get tested. The National CDC Search allows you to conduct a search of HIV and STD testing facilities near you by using your ZIP Code or City, State.

Contact Us

Please contact us to schedule an appointment at 618-857-7760. Our clinic is open Monday-Friday 8:00 – 11:00 am and 1:00 – 3:00 pm for your convenience.  If the above resources do not answer all of your questions, contact us or call one of the hotline numbers listed below.

 

 

Contact	Phone Number	Hours
National STD Hotline	1-800-CDC-INFO (232-4636)	24/7 English en Español
National HIV Hotline	1-800-HIV-0400 (448-0440)	24/7 English en Español

The N.E.A.R Project

The N.E.A.R Project stands for Needle Exchange and Risk Reduction. As the local health department, it is our duty to provide the necessary tools to our community to reduce infections and empower the people. The N.E.A.R Project is here to provide Harm Reduction Services to people who may need clean syringes, sharps containers, naloxone (Narcan), and other Harm Reduction supplies or training.

Needle exchange is a public health program for people who use drugs by injection (PWID). It is an important component of a comprehensive set of programs designed to reduce the spread of HIV and other blood-borne infections among people who inject drugs, their families and communities. Nationally, about a quarter of all people living with AIDS acquired HIV infection directly or indirectly through injection drug use: either from sharing injection equipment, having unprotected sex with an injection drug user, or transmission to children born to injection drug users.

Needle exchange programs provide new, sterile syringes and clean injection equipment in exchange for used, contaminated syringes. They also get drug users into drug treatment and health care. Other services include testing for HIV, hepatitis and other infections to which drug users are prone; treatment readiness counseling and case management services; education about harms associated with drug use and how to minimize them; and safe disposal of contaminated equipment.

PrEP/PEP

PrEP (Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis)

PrEP is a comprehensive HIV prevention strategy that involves the daily oral use or bi-monthly injection of antiretroviral medications to reduce the risk of acquiring HIV. PrEP should be used along with other prevention methods to reduce the risk of other sexually transmitted infections and unwanted pregnancy.

PEP (Post-Exposure Prophylaxis)

PEP is an HIV-prevention strategy using anti-retroviral medications to prevent acquiring HIV following a possible exposure. To be effective, PEP must begin within 72 hours of exposure. A physician must determine what treatment is appropriate based on the nature of the exposure. PEP typically consists of 2–3 antiretroviral medications taken for 28 days. Starting PEP after a potential exposure does not guarantee HIV prevention, but the sooner PEP is started, the better. Every hour counts. Follow-up testing is important to determine if any next steps are needed.

Illinois Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) Assistance Program

 

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Human Immunodeficiency Virus / Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS)
HIV is the virus that causes AIDS/HIV is spread by: Having unprotected sex (anal, oral, or vaginal) with an infected person. Sharing needles with an infected person.Blood-to-blood contact with an infected person.From mother to fetus and newborn.

The Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emergency (CARE) Act
The Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emergency (CARE) Act was enacted on August 18, 1990, an Act of Congress named in honor of Ryan White, an Indiana teenager who contracted AIDS through a tainted hemophilia treatment in 1984 and was expelled from school because of the disease.  White became a well-known advocate for AIDS research and awareness, until his death on April 8, 1990. The act is the United States’ largest federally funded program for people living with HIV/AIDS.  The act sought funding to improve the availability of care for low-income, uninsured, and under-insured victims of AIDS and their families.  As AIDS has spread, the funding of the program has increased.  The Ryan White programs also fund local and State primary medical care providers, support services, and healthcare provider training programs, and provide technical assistance to such organizations.  In the fiscal year 2005, federal funding for the Ryan White Care Act was $2.1 billion.  As of 2005, roughly one-third of this money went to the AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP) which provides drugs for 30 percent of HIV-infected patients.  The primary activity of ADAP is providing FDA-approved prescription medication. Eligibility Criteria

• Documented proof of HIV status

• A resident of one of the following counties:
  • Bond
  • Calhoun
  • Clinton
  • Jersey
  • Macoupin
  • Madison
  • Monroe
  • St. Clair

•  Enrolled in Case Management Available Services
  • Case Management
  • Counseling
  • Dental Care
  • Housing Assistance
  • Legal Assistance
  • Medications
  • Transportation
  • Nutritional Assistance and Supplements
  • Outpatient Primary Care and Lab Services
  • Emergency Financial Assistance
  • Transportation

Some services have income eligibility guidelines. Other restrictions may apply.

Health Education/Risk Reduction
This program is designed to perform outreach interventions to persons at risk for HIV in places where they are likely to be gathering.  This also targets secondary HIV prevention education Services to those living with HIV, prevention services to sex and drug-using partner, and Men Who Have Sex with Men (MSM).  Risk reduction counseling is a short-term, one-on-one intervention designed to increase the ability or motivation of high-risk clients to independently initiated HIV/STD behavior changes, maintain safer behaviors, or access services.  Risk reduction counseling can provide clients with:

• Confidential, client-centered HIV/STD risk assessment, including assessment of variables that influence client risk-taking;
• Individualized client education and skill-building, such as role plays or problem-solving practice with the counselor;
• Development of a personal risk reduction plan; and/or
• Referrals to other services, including HIV PCTR/PCR services.

Outreach is most effective as a way to get high-risk clients into more intensive services.  Through this program, the agency is able to address disease prevention issues that impact high-risk populations from a culturally sensitive approach.  Risk reduction counseling may be offered in any setting that allows for confidential, one-on-one conversion.  Appropriate settings include shelters, storefronts, mental health, centers, substance abuse programs, WIC offices, or coffee shops.

Partner Counseling & Referral (PCR) Services
Partner Counseling and Referral (PCR) services, formerly known as Partner Notification, are ongoing and comprehensive activities to reach, support and serve sex and/or needle-sharing partners of HIV-infected persons. PCR services must be offered in a confidential or anonymous setting at the earliest appropriate time after a person’s diagnosis. PCR services should be made when partners are at risk of HIV infection.

Counseling and Testing:
This program is provided in an anonymous and confidential manner in an outreach setting. Counseling must be an integral part of any voluntary and confidential HIV testing program in an STD clinic or an outreach setting. Counseling should be done both before and after HIV testing. The session should include an assessment of the patient’s risk for infection and risk reduction measures. Pretest counseling: This session should include an assessment of the patient’s risk for infection and risk reduction measures.Post-test counseling- HIV negative: Persons should be told their test results by a person who can explain the need to reduce unsafe behaviors and ways to modify risky practices to eliminate risks.Post-test counseling- HIV positive: Persons should be told their test results by a person who is able to discuss the medical, psychological, and social implications of HIV infection and make appropriate referrals for early intervention services. Increasing the likelihood of sustained behavior change may require that post-test counseling includes multiple sessions. This counseling should include information about the meaning of HIV test results, chances for transmission, the risk of developing AIDS, risk-reduction recommendations appropriate to the person, and the development of a plan for notifying sex and needle-sharing partners of the past 1 to 2 years at a minimum.

HIV Outreach
This program is designed to provide outreach activities for persons living with HIV disease, not in care and medical services, and provide appropriate linkages and referrals to HIV care systems, including the AIDS Drug Administration Program (ADAP) and the local HIV care consortium.

Prevention for Positives
This program is designed to provide intensive counseling sessions with HIV/AIDS clients to reduce rates of transmission and reinfection. Coordination of services with STD/HIV care services is implemented to assure an assessment of clients’ risk behavior is addressed. Service includes a medical and psycho-social needs assessment to identify risk-taking and the development of a client-centered prevention plan with specific behavior objectives completed for HIV risk behavior.

BASUAH (buh soo uh) n.
BASUAH is an acronym for Brothers And Sisters United Against HIV. This is an ESHD program funded by the Illinois Department of Public Health. BASUAH promotes HIV/AIDS awareness among communities of color through education, collaboration, and community engagement. You can reach the AIDS Hotline at 1-800-243-2437 or for more details click here HIV Care Connect.

EAST SIDE HEALTH DISTRICT
5540 Bunkum Road, Washington Park, IL 62204
618 874-4713
618 874-2119 fax

 

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