Why has the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued new recommendations for partner services?
A. Until now, CDC has published two separate guidelines for HIV/AIDS and STD partner services—the 1998 HIV Partner Counseling and Referral Services (PCRS) Guidance and the partner services module of the 2001 Program Operations Guidelines for STD Prevention. Inconsistencies and differences in degree of detail between these two documents have led to confusion at the service delivery level, where often the same program—even the same person—provides partner services for HIV and other STDs. In addition, because of changing epidemiological patterns of HIV and other STDs, persons co-infected with HIV and syphilis constitute an increasingly significant proportion of all syphilis cases. This further highlights existing discrepancies and the urgent need for a single set of recommendations. Furthermore, program staff regularly noted that different approaches to partner services for HIV and other STDs were a barrier to effective, efficient program management and led to the fragmentation of service
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