NRS 211.152 Treatment of prisoners with human immunodeficiency virus.

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1. A sheriff, chief of police or town marshal who is responsible for a county, city or town jail or detention facility shall not enter into a contract or other agreement with any person or entity to provide medical services to prisoners who are diagnosed with human immunodeficiency virus unless the person or entity demonstrates that at least 95 percent of the patients who are diagnosed with human immunodeficiency virus to whom the person or entity provides medical services:

(a)Are offered treatment on the same day as the diagnosis; and

(b)Are able to begin such treatment not later than 7 days after diagnosis.

2. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 3, a county, city or town jail or detention facility shall take reasonable measures to ensure the availability of:

(a)Any drug prescribed for treating the human immunodeficiency virus in the form recommended by the prescribing practitioner to each prisoner who has been diagnosed with human immunodeficiency virus to the same extent and under the same conditions as other medical care for prisoners.

(b)Methods of preventing the acquisition of human immunodeficiency virus, including, without limitation, drugs approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration for that purpose, to all prisoners free of charge.

3. A county, city or town jail or detention facility:

(a)Is not required to make available a drug described in subsection 2 for which a prescription is required to a prisoner for whom such a prescription has not been issued.

(b)Shall take reasonable measures to make available to all prisoners a provider of health care who is authorized to issue a prescription for a drug described in subsection 2.

(c)Shall not demand, request or suggest that a provider of health care refrain from issuing a prescription for a drug described in subsection 2 to an offender or take any other measure to prevent a provider of health care from issuing such a prescription.

4. As used in this section, “provider of health care” has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 629.031 .