STD Screening Guidelines

Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STD) cause substantial social and economic costs. Physicians and other health-care providers play a critical role in preventing and treating STDs. We hope these resources can support you in how to best screen, treat, and manage your patients and their partners.

  1. Case Report Form
  2. Screening & Treatment
  3. Resources & Tools
  4. How SHD Can Help

Chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis, and herpes simplex are notifiable conditions for the prevention and control of communicable and noninfectious diseases in Washington. Health care providers are required to notify public health authorities of these conditions as individual cases using procedures described: