Partner Notification

Normally called contact-tracing, partner notification is process of telling or notifying your sexual or injecting partners about your STI diagnosis. When your partner knows they might have been put at risk of an STI as well, they can get tested quickly and if necessary, treated immediately.

Partner notification is usually carried out by the person themselves with the support of a nurse or a doctor in a sexual health clinic or GP setting.  Positive Life supports people diagnosed with an STI (including HIV), to notify or tell partners with the support of someone else (a peer) who has been through the process of notifying partners (sexual or injecting) themselves.

This peer-led partner notification is a way for anyone newly diagnosed with an STI (including HIV) to take ownership of a critical diagnosis moment.

For support call the Positive Life on (02) 0357 8386, 1800 245 677 (outside metro) or email contact@positivelife.org.au

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The peer-led partner notification service has been developed in partnership with the NSW Ministry of Health and Sexual Health Infolink (SHIL).