For Information on how to get tested
for STDs and HIV:
How Can
Partner Services Help?
Hennepin County Public Health Clinic
with Red Door Services
525 Portland Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55415
(612) 543-5555
http://www.co.hennepin.mn.us
Clinic 555
St. Paul-Ramsey County Department
of Public Health
555 Cedar Street
St. Paul, MN 55101
(651) 266-1255
http://www.clinic555.org
West Side Community Health Services
153 Cesar Chavez Street
St. Paul, MN 55107
(651) 222-1816
http://www.westsidechs.org
Because you take care of yourself.
Because you take care of others.
Help for when your
partners need to be
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informed about
STDs/HIV
Beca
Infectious Disease Epidemiology,
Prevention and Control Division (IDEPC)
STD and HIV Section
Freeman Building
625 Robert Street North
P.O. Box 64975
St. Paul, MN 55164-0975
Phone: (651) 201-5414
http://www.health.state.mn.us/std
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IC#141-2554
STD and HIV Section
Sept. 2012
IDEPC Division, STD and HIV Section
Partner Services Program
How we can help
We will work with you so that your partner can be
informed in a sensitive and private way. There are
a number of ways for this to happen.
We can do it for you. A Partner Services Health
Representative can take information from you about
your partner. We will then discreetly get in touch
with your partner, let them know of their
Why tell your partner?
Telling a partner may not be easy, but it is important
that you do so. If left untreated, some STDs can
cause serious permanent damage. Many STDs don’t
have any symptoms so the only way to know is to
get tested. Informing your partners gives them the
opportunity to get immediate screening and
treatment.
exposure—without saying anything about you—and
Partner Services will:
refer them to testing and other services they may
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need. Again, we will never, under any
personal information.
circumstances, disclose any information about you.
We can help you do it. A Partner Services Health
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support and information, including referrals for
testing and other services that your partner may
Be there to answer questions and offer
options.
Representative can help prepare you to tell your
partner of their possible exposure. We will also offer
Protect your privacy, identity, and
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Offer medical referrals and other
available resources.
need.
We can do it with you. You can choose to talk with
your partner along with a Partner Services Health
Representative who will provide support and answer
any questions and concerns your partner may have.
You can combine these options. A Partner Services
Health Representative will work with you to tell as
many different partners as you want in any
combination of these ways.
Call the Partner Services Program
at
651-201-5414