Communicable Diseases
Auckland Regional Public Health Service (ARPHS) Communicable Disease Control Team provides a range of services aimed at the treatment and prevention of notifiable infectious diseases. This involves the investigation both of individual cases of
notifiable diseases and outbreaks of such diseases in the community. This is a complex process that involves identification of the causative agents, tracing and screening of contacts and organising control measures to prevent spread of the disease in the community.
As part of its role, the Communicable Disease Team is also involved in advising and supporting contacts of notifiable infectious diseases. Public health nurses may also provide preventative medication or immunisation to contacts.
The Communicable Disease Control Team also liaises with other District Health Boards in New Zealand and
Ministry of Health. It provides information to the community and the media on relevant and/or current health issues.
Surveillance reports on communicable diseases in the Auckland region are prepared on a regular basis by our surveillance team and include collated data from local authorities.
The service also provides neonatal
BCG vaccination in the community and at
Middlemore Hospital.
For all other information please contact the ARPHS on-call Assessment and Management Team on ph (09) 623 4600.
Other diseases are dealt with by the following organisations: