1. Reports, information, and records submitted and maintained pursuant to this subchapter are strictly confidential medical information. The information shall not be released, shared with an agency or institution, or made public upon subpoena, search warrant, discovery proceedings, or by any other means except under any of the following circumstances:
a. Release may be made of medical or epidemiological information for statistical purposes in a manner such that no individual person can be identified.
b. Release may be made of medical or epidemiological information to the extent necessary to enforce the provisions of this subchapter and related rules concerning the treatment, control, and investigation of human immunodeficiency virus infection by public health officials.
c. Release may be made of medical or epidemiological information to medical personnel in a medical emergency to the extent necessary to protect the health or life of the named party.
d. Release may be made of test results concerning a patient pursuant to procedures established under section 141.6, subsection 3, paragraph "d".
2. An officer or employee of the state or local department of health or a person making a report pursuant to this subchapter shall not be examined in any judicial, executive, legislative, or other proceeding as to the existence or content of an individual report made pursuant to this subchapter.
3. Reports, information, and records which contain the identity of persons except reports, information, and records necessary to honor the requests made pursuant to section 141.8 shall be destroyed immediately after the extraction of statistical data and completion of contact identification or in no event longer than six months from the date the report, information, or record was received.
4. A person making a report in good faith pursuant to this subchapter is immune from any liability, civil or criminal, which might otherwise be incurred or imposed as a result of the report.
5. For purposes of this section, "good faith" means objectively reasonable, and not in violation of clearly established statutory rights or other rights of a person which a reasonable person would know or should have known.
6. A physician or health care practitioner attending a person who tests positive for the human immunodeficiency virus infection has no duty to disclose to or to warn third parties of the dangers of exposure to human immunodeficiency virus infection through contact with that person and is immune from any liability, civil or criminal, for failure to disclose to or warn third parties of the condition of that person.
88 Acts, ch 1224, § 11; 89 Acts, ch 223, § 2, 3
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