Common use of HIV Infection Reporting Clause in Contracts

HIV Infection Reporting. a. California Health and Safety Code Section 121022, subdivision (a) provides: “To ensure knowledge of current trends in the HIV epidemic and to assure that California remains competitive for federal HIV and AIDS funding, health care providers and laboratories shall report cases of HIV infection to the local health officer using patient names. Local health officers shall report unduplicated HIV cases by name to the [California Department of Public Health]” b. California Health and Safety Code Section 121022, subdivision (f) provides: “State and local health department employees and contractors shall be required to sign confidentiality agreement developed by the department that include information related to the penalties for a breach of confidentiality, and the procedures for reporting a breach of confidentiality…..” c. California Health and Safety Code section 121023, subdivision (a) provides: “Subject to subdivision (b), each clinical laboratory, as defined in Section 1206 of the Business and Professions Code, shall report all CD4+ T-Cell Test results to the local health officer for the local health jurisdiction where the health care provider facility is located within seven days of the completion of the CD4+ T-Cell test…..” d. Title 17, California Code of Regulations, Section 2643.15, provides in part as follows: “The local health officer or his or her authorized designee shall match and unduplicate laboratory reports of confirmed HIV tests with the local health department HIV/AIDS registry database and with HIV/AIDS case reports received from health care providers and not entered into the database. The health officer or his or her authorized designee shall, within 45 calendar days of receipt of a laboratory report of a confirmed HIV test, submit unduplicated HIV/AIDS case reports to the Department.”

HIV Infection Reporting. a. California Health and Safety Code Section 121022, subdivision (a) provides: “To ensure knowledge of current trends in the HIV epidemic and to assure that California remains competitive for federal HIV and AIDS funding, health care providers and laboratories shall report cases of HIV infection to the local health officer using patient names. Local health officers shall report unduplicated HIV cases by name to the [California Department of Public Health].” b. California Health and Safety Code Section 121022, subdivision (f) provides: “State and local health department employees and contractors shall be required to sign confidentiality agreement agreements developed by the department that include information related to the penalties for a breach of confidentiality, and the procedures for reporting a breach of confidentiality…..confidentiality . . .” c. California Health and Safety Code section Section 121023, subdivision (a) provides: “Subject to subdivision (b), each clinical laboratory, as defined in Section 1206 of the Business and Professions Code, shall report all CD4+ T-Cell Test results to the local health officer for the local health jurisdiction where the health care provider facility is located within seven days of the completion of the CD4+ T-Cell test…..test ” d. Title 17, California Code of Regulations, Section 2643.15, provides in part as follows: “The local health officer or his or her authorized designee shall match and unduplicate induplicate laboratory reports of confirmed HIV tests with the local health department HIV/AIDS registry database and with HIV/AIDS case reports received from health care providers and not entered into the database. The health officer or his or her authorized designee shall, within 45 calendar days of receipt of a laboratory report of a confirmed HIV test, submit unduplicated HIV/AIDS case reports to the Department.”