Montana Code 50-16-1016. Labor and delivery HIV screening
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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:
Terms Used In Montana Code 50-16-1016
- Antiretroviral prophylaxis: means a specific drug regime preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV infections. See Montana Code 50-16-1003
- HIV: means the human immunodeficiency virus, identified as the causative agent of AIDS, and all HIV and HIV-related viruses that damage the cellular branch of the human immune or neurological systems and leave the infected person immunodeficient or neurologically impaired. See Montana Code 50-16-1003
- HIV diagnostic test: means a test approved by the federal food and drug administration, including but not limited to an enzyme immunoassay and a western blot, that is designed to detect the presence of HIV or antibodies to HIV. See Montana Code 50-16-1003
(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.