Nevada Revised Statutes 209.253 – Treatment of offenders with human immunodeficiency virus
1. The Department or the operator of a private facility or institution shall not enter into a contract or other agreement with any person or entity to provide medical services to offenders who are diagnosed with human immunodeficiency virus unless the person or entity demonstrates that at least 95 percent of the patients who are diagnosed with human immunodeficiency virus to whom the person or entity provides medical services:
Terms Used In Nevada Revised Statutes 209.253
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- person: means a natural person, any form of business or social organization and any other nongovernmental legal entity including, but not limited to, a corporation, partnership, association, trust or unincorporated organization. See Nevada Revised Statutes 0.039
(a) Are offered treatment on the same day as the diagnosis; and
(b) Are able to begin such treatment not later than 7 days after diagnosis.
2. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 3, an institution, facility or private facility or institution shall take reasonable measures to ensure the availability of:
(a) Any drug prescribed for treating the human immunodeficiency virus in the form recommended by the prescribing practitioner to each offender who has been diagnosed with human immunodeficiency virus to the same extent and under the same conditions as other medical care for offenders.
(b) Methods of preventing the acquisition of human immunodeficiency virus, including, without limitation, drugs approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration for that purpose, to all offenders free of charge.
3. An institution, facility or private facility or institution:
(a) Is not required to make available a drug described in subsection 2 for which a prescription is required to an offender for whom such a prescription has not been issued.
(b) Shall take reasonable measures to make available to all offenders a provider of health care who is authorized to issue a prescription for a drug described in subsection 2.
(c) Shall not demand, request or suggest that a provider of health care refrain from issuing a prescription for a drug described in subsection 2 to an offender or take any other measure to prevent a provider of health care from issuing such a prescription.
4. As used in this section, ‘provider of health care’ has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 629.031.