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Mont. Code Ann. § 50-16-1016

Labor and delivery HIV screening

Known as the AIDS Prevention Act

The act spans §§ 50-16-1001 to 50-16-1016 (13 sections).

En

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.

Official source: Montana Code Annotated (Montana Legislature). Reproduced from public-domain Montana statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.