50-16-1016. Labor and delivery HIV screening, MCA

Montana Code Annotated 2019

TITLE 50. HEALTH AND SAFETY

CHAPTER 16. HEALTH CARE INFORMATION

Part 10. AIDS Education and Prevention

Labor And Delivery Hiv Screening

50-16-1016. Labor and delivery HIV screening. Physicians and other health care providers licensed to provide prenatal care to pregnant women shall, if medically indicated:

(1) offer a rapid HIV diagnostic test to pregnant women in labor with unknown or undocumented HIV status;

(2) offer antiretroviral prophylaxis without waiting for the results of the confirmatory test if a rapid HIV diagnostic test or a standard HIV diagnostic test is positive.

History: En. Sec. 3, Ch. 362, L. 2009.