New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 61 - ATTENDANCE AND PARTICIPATION AT SCHOOL BY PERSONS WITH HIV INFECTION; AIDS DRUG DISTRIBUTION PROGRAM; HIV/AIDS COUNSELING AND TESTING OF PREGNANT WOMEN FOR HIV; AND DISCLOSURE OF CHILDREN'S HIV/AIDS STATUS › Subchapter 1 - HIV SERVICES-DEFINITIONS › Section 8:61-1.1 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 14, July 15, 2024
The following words and terms, when used in this chapter, shall
				  have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
"Adult" means a teacher, administrator, food service employee or
				  other school staff member.
"AIDS" means acquired immune deficiency syndrome, a condition
				  affecting an individual who has a reliably diagnosed disease that meets the criteria
				  for AIDS specified by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of the United
				  States Public Health Service in the following volumes of the Morbidity and Mortality
				  Weekly Review (MMWR): Volume 41 RR-17 of the MMWR published on December 18, 1992;
				  Volume 43 No. RR-17 of the MMWR published on September 30, 1994; Volume 48 No. RR-13
				  of the MMWR published on December 10, 1999; Volume 57 No. RR-10 of the MMWR
				  published on December 5, 2008; and, updates found at
www.cdc.gov/mmwr
.
"AIDS Drug Distribution Program" means the program by which
				  eligible individuals will receive designated medications approved by the Federal
				  Food and Drug Administration which have been recognized as either prolonging or
				  enhancing the life of individuals with HIV infection from funds appropriated to the
				  State from the Federal government.
"Clinical practitioner" shall mean any of the following acting
				  within his or her scope of practice: physician, advanced practice nurse, physician
				  assistant, registered professional nurse or certified nurse midwife.
"Department" means the New Jersey Department of Health .
"Full-time caregiver" means a foster parent(s), prospective
				  adoptive parent(s), group home and treatment home parent(s), the medical director or
				  other individual in other congregate care facilities responsible for the medical
				  care and management of the child. This list is not exhaustive and may include
				  relatives and family friends who are actively engaged in caring for the needs of the
				  HIV/AIDS child.
"Need-to-know basis" means that a disclosure will occur only when
				  necessary for the treatment, care, and overall health needs of the HIV/AIDS-infected
				  child.
"HIV" means human immunodeficiency virus, the virus that causes
				  AIDS and that meets the case definitions of HIV specified by the Centers for Disease
				  Control and Prevention of the United States Public Health Service in the following
				  volumes of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Review (MMWR): Volume 41 No. RR-17 of
				  the MMWR published on December 18, 1992; Volume 43 No. RR-17 of the MMWR published
				  on September 30, 1994; Volume 48 No. RR-13 of the MMWR published on December 10,
				  1999; Volume 57 No. RR-10 of the MMWR published on December 5, 2008; and, updates
				  found at
www.cdc.gov/mmwr
.
"Physician" means an individual currently licensed to practice
				  medicine and surgery pursuant to
				  45:9-1 et seq.
"Student" means an individual entitled to enrollment in a public
				  preschool, elementary, secondary or adult high school program, charter school, or a
				  licensed school acting under contract to provide educational services on behalf of a
				  public school district within the State of New Jersey and school programs operated
				  by or under contract with the New Jersey Departments of Corrections and Human
				  Services and the Juvenile Justice Commission.