16 Del. C. § 701: Definitions.

(a) “Director” means the Director of the Division of Public Health or the Director’s authorized deputies within their respective jurisdictions.

(b) “Expedited partner therapy” means the clinical practice of treating the sex partners of patients diagnosed with a sexually transmitted disease without clinical assessment of the partners.

(c) “Health-care practitioner” means a physician or an individual licensed and authorized to prescribe under Title 24.

(d) “Health-care professional” means any physician, nurse, laboratory or blood bank technologist or technician, and any others whose professions involve the diagnosis, care, or treatment of individuals or the testing of bodily specimens for the purpose of finding evidence of disease.

(e) “Health facility” means a hospital, nursing home, clinic, blood bank, blood center, sperm bank, laboratory, or other health-care institution whether public or private.

(f) “Sexually transmitted disease” or “STD” refers to the presence of signs, symptoms, or diagnostic test findings manifesting in an individual as a result of a sexually transmitted infection.

(g) “Sexually transmitted infection” or “STI” means infections for which the primary route of spread is through sexual contact including vaginal, anal, or oral sex, or other contact with internal or external genitalia.

(h) “Suspect” means an individual falling into 1 or more of the following categories:

(1) An individual having positive laboratory or clinical findings of an STD.

(2) An individual in whom epidemiologic evidence indicates an STD may exist.

(3) An individual identified as a sexual contact of an STD case.