New Jersey STD Reporting Requirements (PDF)

Persons required to report

• Physicians
• Advanced practice nurses
• Physicians Assistants
• Person having control or supervision over a hospital/health care facility, correctional facility, school, summer camp, childcare center, preschool, or institution of higher education.
• Laboratories (for specific guidelines for labs, please see NJAC 8:57-1.7  )

Reportable STDs

• Chancroid (Haemophilus ducreyi)
• Chlamydial Infections, sexually transmitted (Chlamydia trachomatis)
• Chlamydial Infections, neonatal (Chlamydia trachomatis)
• Gonorrhea (Neisseria gonorrhoeae)
• Granuloma inguinale (Calymmatobacterium granulomatis)
• Lymphogranuloma venereum (Chlamydia trachomatis)
• Syphilis, primary and secondary (Treponema pallidum)
• Syphilis, congenital

Required Information

• Name of disease
• Personal information for the person infected:
  • Name
  • Age and date of birth
  • Address and telephone number
  • Gender
  • Race
  • Ethnicity
• Symptoms
• Treatment (medication, dosage, and dates)
• Name, address, direct phone number, and institution of reporting official

How to report an STD to NJDOH

• STD reports should be made directly into the Communicable Disease and Surveillance System (CDRSS)
  • Email cdrs.admin@doh.nj.gov if you have any questions.
• If unable to report through CDRSS, reports can be made:
  • By phone to the STD Program 609-826-4869
  • Via secure fax using one of the STD-11 Confidential STD Report Forms below.