HIV Surveillance & Epidemiology - Infectious Disease
October 1, 2008
Partner Services for sexually transmitted diseases (STD) has been a component of public health practice in the United States since the early 1900’s. It began as contact tracing in the 1940’s in an effort to control and reduce syphilis infections. After the HIV epidemic began, HIV partner notification was often combined with STD contact tracing or some HIV programs used methods previously only applied to STD.