HAR §156-11-4.4. §11-156-4

4 Interventions for disease prevention and control for Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs). (a) Source and spread. With only very rare exception, STIs are spread by intimate body contact with infected individuals. To discover the source and possible spread of infection in every case of STI, interviewing of patients and tracing of sexual contacts are fundamental features of a program for control. As the period of communicability varies among the several diseases and can be as much as one year or longer and since the technique for interviewing patients and tracing of their sexual contacts is an exacting one, the physician is urged to utilize the facilities of the department to perform these epidemiologic services. Any person infected with an STI should either disclose to the physician or authorized representative of the director the name, residence, and other identifying characteristic of any person with whom the patient has had sexual contact during the time interval during which the patient had symptoms of disease plus the maximum incubation period possible for that disease and stage, or should bring those individuals forward for diagnosis and treatment. (b) Prevention of blindness at childbirth. Any physician, midwife, or any other person in attendance in childbirth shall administer prophylaxis for acute infectious conjunctivitis of the newborn within one hour after birth. Acute infectious conjunctivitis of the newborn includes gonorrheal ophthalmia and ophthalmia neonatorum. The prophylaxis for acute infectious conjunctivitis of the newborn shall be one of the following: (1) One percent silver nitrate in wax ampules administered without saline irrigation or 61