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The Northern Territory Disease Control Bulletin

Details:

Title

The Northern Territory Disease Control Bulletin

Other title

Disease Control Bulletin

Creator

Territory Health Services, Centre for Disease Control

Collection

Northern Territory disease control bulletin; E-Journals; PublicationNT; Northern Territory disease control bulletin

Date

2002-03

Location

Casuarina

Notes

Date:2002-03; This publication contains may contain links to external sites. These external sites may no longer be active.; Made available via the Publications (Legal Deposit) Act 2004 (NT).

Language

English

Subject

Communicable diseases; Reporting; Northern Territory; Statistics; Periodicals

Publisher name

Northern Territory Government

Place of publication

Casuarina

Series

Northern Territory disease control bulletin

Volume

v. 9 no. 1

File type

application/pdf

ISSN

1440-883X

Use

Attribution International 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)

Copyright owner

Northern Territory Government

License

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

Parent handle

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/233806

Citation address

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/655675

Page content

The Northern Territory Disease Control Bulletin Vol 9, No.1, March 2002 15 well as for use in similar educational events. The list of take-home messages were highly appreciated by course participants, and likewise can be used for future training. Conclusion The success of this educational event supports the approach of an interactive assessment of needs (the 1999 GP survey and remote strategy findings) and the subsequent development of a training program reflecting these needs. The course was highly regarded by all who attended and consideration could be given to running it in Central Australia in the future. Negotiations are underway with the TEDGP for a workshop highlighting the common notifiable diseases, using hypotheticals and clinical scenarios and explaining the public health responses. Acknowledgements Thanks to Jan Savage, Steven Skov and particularly to Stephen Baguley, who spent his last day in Australia teaching at the course, for making the session a success. Thanks too, to the TEDGP staff, Gemma Byrne, Caitlin and Vicki McGowan, for their support. Appendix Program Time Session Facilitator 09:00 09:20 Introduction GP Survey findings Simon Morgan 09:20 10:05 Epidemiology of STIs in the NT Jan Savage 10:05 10:40 Population Health and the Remote STI strategy Steven Skov 10:40 10:55 Morning break 10:55 11:30 Diagnostic issues The role of HSV serology Trichomoniasis HIV testing - legal issues Culture for gonorrhoea FVU in women The role of endourethral swabs Self administered LVS Stephen Baguley 11:30 12:00 Treatment Issues Genital Herpes Genital Warts Antibiotic Resistant Neisseria Gonorrhoea Genital Tract Chlamydia HIV Post Exposure Prophylaxis Simon Morgan 12:00 13:00 Lunch 13:00 13:20 Vulval pain case study Stephen Baguley 13:20 13:45 Syphilis serology interpretation Steven Skov 13:45 14:10 PID clinical pitfalls/case study Jan Savage 14:10 14:50 Male and female genital discharge case studies Stephen Baguley 14:50 15:00 Summary, closing points, questions Simon Morgan