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.