20 hours ago If any exposure prone invasive procedures performed, or DOH identifies any other potential risk transmission to patients, the DOH shall advise HCW that such patients must be retroactively notified of their potential risk of exposure to HIV. HCW has 45 days to self-notify, but if the HCW refuses to do so, the DOH will notify patients. >> Go To The Portal
HIV/AIDS Case Reporting and Guidelines AIDS cases have been reported to the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) this way since 1981. Every healthcare professional must report each case in which the healthcare professional has diagnosed or treated a case of AIDS or HIV infection.
1. Do I have an obligation to disclose my HIV- positive status to health-care professionals? There is currently no legislation or case law obliging patients to tell their doctors, nurses, dentists, surgeons, paramedics or any other health professionals that they are HIV-positive.
It is vital that healthcare workers living with HIV are able to access occupational health support should they wish to. However, making it a requirement for someone to disclose their HIV shifts the purpose of occupational health from providing support for employees to acting as a regulator of transmission risk.
All 50 states and the District of Columbia require health-care providers to report new cases of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) to their state health departments. As of July 1989, 28 (56%) states also required reporting of persons infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) (Figure 1).