R512-32-2. Definitions

(1) "Communicable Disease" means any infectious condition reportable to the Utah Department of Health, pursuant to Section 26-6-3. These diseases are listed in the Code of Communicable Disease Rules (R386-702-2 and R386-702-3). In addition, for the purposes of this rule, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) seropositivity will be considered a communicable disease. Non-reportable minor illnesses such as strep, flu, and colds are excluded from this definition.

(2) "Primary care medical provider" means a person authorized and licensed to supply the daily needs of children in the custody of the Division of Child and Family Services (Child and Family Services). (Other divisions of the Department, for example, the Division of Juvenile Justice Services, shall function under separate communicable disease rules for those youth within their custody and jurisdiction.)

(3) "UDHS" means the Utah Department of Human Services.

(4) "Child and Family Services" means the Division of Child and Family Services.

(5) "UDOH" means the Utah Department of Health, Bureau of Epidemiology or Bureau of Communicable Disease Control.

(6) "HIV Screening" means a laboratory test (Elisa Test) to detect evidence of infection with the HIV; the causative agent of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS).

(7) "HIV Seropositivity" means the presence in an individual, as detected by confirmatory laboratory testing (Western Blot Test), of an antibody or antigen to the HIV.

(8) "High Risk Behaviors" means behaviors which may include injectable drug use, sharing intravenous needles and syringes, multiple sex partners, unprotected sex that increase the risks of contracting Hepatitis B, AIDS, HIV disease, and sexually transmitted diseases such as gonorrhea, syphilis, chancroid, granuloma inguinale, chlamydial infections, pelvic inflammatory disease, and lymphogranuloma venereum.

(9) "Children at Risk" means an infant or child born to parent(s) engaging in or who have a history of engaging in high risk behaviors, or a child or youth who has been sexually abused by a person who engages in or has a history of engaging in high risk behaviors.

(10) "Contact" means an individual who has been exposed to a communicable disease through a known mode of transmission.

(11) "Controlled" means a classification of information (medical, psychiatric, or psychological) under the Government Records Access and Management Act (GRAMA), Section 63G-2-304.