Section R9-6-1102. Health Care Provider Requirements

When a laboratory report for a test ordered by a health care provider for a subject indicates that the subject is infected with an STD, the ordering health care provider or the ordering health care provider’s designee shall:

1.        Describe the test results to the subject;

2.        Provide or arrange for the subject to receive the following information about the STD for which the subject was tested:

a.        A description of the disease or syndrome caused by the STD, including its symptoms;

b.        Treatment options for the STD and where treatment may be obtained;

c.        A description of how the STD is transmitted to oth- ers;

d.        A description of measures to reduce the likelihood of transmitting the STD to others and that it is neces- sary to continue the measures until the infection is eliminated;

e.        That it is necessary for the subject to notify individu- als who may have been infected by the subject that the individuals need to be tested for the STD;

f.         The availability of assistance from local health agen- cies or other resources; and

g.        The confidential nature of the subject’s test results;

3.        Report the information required in R9-6-202 to a local health agency; and

4.        If the subject is pregnant and is a syphilis case, inform the subject of the requirement in R9-6-375 that the subject obtain serologic testing for syphilis three months, six months, and one year after initiating treatment for syphi- lis.

Historical Note

New Section made by final rulemaking at 14 A.A.R.

1502, effective April 1, 2008 (Supp. 08-2).