§ 43A-3-425.1. HIV education, testing and counseling services.  


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  • Every approved treatment facility in this state shall:

    1.  Provide Human Immunodeficiency Virus (H.I.V.) infection education sessions to drug-dependent persons in such facility and shall make said education sessions available to the spouses or other sexual partners of such persons as part of its treatment program for drug-dependent persons; and

    2.  Refer all drug-dependent persons in its program for Human Immunodeficiency Virus (H.I.V.) infection testing and counseling.

    The treatment facility shall provide assistance as necessary to enable drug-dependent persons in its program to receive said testing and counseling services and may enter into a contract with a public or private organization for the provision of testing or counseling services at the treatment facility site.  The results of individual tests shall be maintained in a confidential manner as required by state and federal law.

Added by Laws 1988, c. 79, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 1988.