The Commissioner of Public Health shall establish and contract for the administration of a program using AIDS Services funding to provide financial assistance to victims of sexual assault for drugs prescribed by a physician for nonoccupational post-exposure prophylaxis for human immunodeficiency virus consistent with recommendations of the National Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the state of Connecticut Technical Guidelines for Health Care Response to Victims of Sexual Assault. The commissioner shall give priority for benefits under the program established pursuant to this section to sexual assault victims who are uninsured or underinsured and for whom the program is a payer of last resort. The commissioner shall issue a request for proposal totaling twenty-five thousand dollars annually to which a qualified organization may apply to administer the program.
(P.A. 11-44, S. 173.)
History: P.A. 11-44 effective July 1, 2011.
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