Performing HIV Tests •Health care providers performing HIV tests must have procedures in place for securing patient consent, testing samples, and informing patients of test results. •Florida's Omnibus AIDS Act requires, with few exceptions, health care providers ordering HIV tests to: a. Obtain the "informed consent" of the test subject b. Confirm positive preliminary test results through corroborating tests before informing the test subject of the result c. Take "all reasonable efforts" to notify the test subject about the test results. |
•Performing HIV testing also requires providers to consider procedures addressing other aspects of HIV law described in the subsequent sections of this booklet. •These include the: 1. Special handling of “superconfidential” HIV test results within their medical records (Section III.), 2. Obligations to notify parties other than the patient (Section IV.) 3. Mandatory reporting of positive HIV test results to public health authorities (Section V.). |