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SBOH Rules
Communicable Disease Control and Prevention
HIV/AIDS Policy Review
The
Board of Health and the Department of Health launched a
joint initiative to review procedures, policies, rules,
and statutes related to HIV/AIDS and other blood borne
infections in 2003. This resulted in the Board revising
rules for HIV at its April 2005 meeting. The Board
adopted additional revisions to rules regarding name
retention for HIV case reports in June 2006. For more
information, including copies of documents, visit the
HIV
Policy Review
section
of the department's Web site. The Board expects to
receive a briefing from the Department in 2008 about
implementation of the revisions and the possible need
for additional rule changes.
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CR-103 filed May 4, 2005 as
WSR 05-11-110.
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Board briefing on national reporting standards for
HIV on November 9, 2005.
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New
CR-103 filed August 1, 2006 as
WSR 06-16-17
Statutory Authority:
RCW 43.20.050 and
70.24 RCW
SBOH Contact:
Ned Therien, 360-236-4103
DOH Contact:
John Peppert, 360-236-3427
Notifiable Conditions Rule Revision
The Board adopted changes to the Notifiable
Conditions chapter at a public hearing on November 10,
2004. The affected sections are
WAC 246-101-015,
101,
201, and
301. The changes expanded the list of notifiable
conditions to include conditions that were provisionally
notifiable and added hepatitis C and hepatitis B to the
list of conditions reportable by laboratories. The
provisionally notifiable conditions that were added to
the permanent list of reportable conditions are: autism
spectrum disorders, cerebral palsy, alcohol related
birth defects, newly diagnosed cases and previously
unreported cases of prevalent hepatitis B (chronic) and
hepatitis C (acute and chronic), initial genital
infection with herpes simplex, abdominal wall congenital
defects, and arboviral diseases.
Information regarding notifiable conditions is
available from the Department of Healths Web site. The
Board expects to receive a briefing update from the
Department in 2008 regarding possibly amending the
listing of notifiable conditions.
Statutory Authority:
RCW 43.20.050 and
70.24.125
SBOH Contact:
Craig McLaughlin, 360-236-4106
DOH Contact:
Pam Lovinger, 360-236-4225
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