PUBLIC LAW 100-322—MAY 20, 1988
102 STAT. 505
(b) REQUIRED ELEMENTS OF INFORMATION PROGRAM.—In conduct-
ing the program under subsection (a), the Administrator shall— (1) develop, in consultation with the Surgeon General of the United States and the Director of the Centers for Disease Control, publications and other materials containing information on AIDS, including information on the prevention of infection with the human immunodeficiency virus; (2) provide for periodic dissemination of publications (including the Surgeon General's Report on AIDS) and other materials containing such information; (3) make publications and other suitable materials containing such information readily available in Veterans' Administration health-care facilities and such other Veterans' Administration facilities as the Administrator considers appropriate; and (4) disseminate information (including the Surgeon General's Report on AIDS) on the risk of transmission of the human immunodeficiency virus, and information on preventing the transmission of such virus, to Veterans' Administration substance abuse treatment personnel, to each person being furnished treatment by the Veterans' Administration for drug abuse, and to each person receiving care or services from the Veterans' Administration whom the Administrator believes to be at high risk for AIDS. (c) TRAINING IN AIDS PREVENTION.—The Administrator shall Education. establish and carry out a program that provides for education, training, and other activities (including continuing education and infection control programs) regarding AIDS and the human immunodeficiency virus designed to improve the effectiveness and safety of all health-care personnel and all health-care support personnel involved in the furnishing of care under programs administered by the Veterans' Administration. SEC. 124. RESTRICTION ON TESTING FOR INFECTION WITH THE HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS.
38 USC 4133 note.
(a) GENERAL RULE.—Except as provided in subsection (b), the Administrator may not during any fiscal year conduct a widespread testing program to determine infection of humans with the human immunodeficiency virus unless funds have been appropriated to the Veterans' Administration specifically for such a program during that fiscal year. (b) VOLUNTARY TESTING.—(1) The Administrator shall provide for a program under which the Veterans' Administration offers each patient to whom the Veterans' Administration is furnishing health care or services and who is described in paragraph (2) the opportunity to be tested to determine whether such patient is infected with the human immunodeficiency virus. (2) Patients referred to in paragraph (1) are— (A) patients who are receiving treatment for intravenous drug Drugs and drug abuse. abuse, (B) patients who are receiving treatment for a disease associ- Diseases. ated with the human immunodeficiency virus, and (C) patients who are otherwise at high risk for infection with such virus. (3) Subject to the consent requirement in paragraph (4) and unless medically contraindicated, the test shall be administered to each patient requesting to be tested for infection with such virus.
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