Handles health records, in Bolivia

Ley No. 3131 del Ejercicio Profesional Médico, arts. 3, 4, 12, 13 and 17 (Secreto Médico) · Read the law's page

• If you are a physician or run a clinical service in Bolivia, keep medical secrecy: all information identified during the medical act about a patient's state of health or illness, treatment and other personal information must stay secret, even after the patient's death and after you stop providing services (Ley 3131, Articles 3, 4 and 12).
• Reveal medical secrecy only where the patient or legal representative expressly authorizes it, where you act as a forensic physician at the request of a competent authority, for a notifiable disease, where the health of the family and community is at imminent risk, or where the law expressly provides (Ley 3131, Article 17).

Ley No. 3729 para la Prevención del VIH-SIDA, arts. 9 and 20 (Derecho a la Reserva; Resultados de las Pruebas) · Read the law's page

• Protect the identity and situation of people living with HIV-AIDS: if you are health personnel who learn a person's identity through your work, do not disclose it in any way, except as the medical and epidemiological protocols provide (Ley 3729, Article 9).
• Keep HIV-AIDS test results confidential and hold the person's identity under codes (Ley 3729, Article 20).
• If you run an accredited public or private medical center or laboratory that detects a case of HIV-AIDS, notify it confidentially to the National STD/HIV-AIDS Programme of the Ministry of Health and Sports (Ley 3729, Article 20).
• Do not publish in print or on television about a person living with HIV-AIDS without that person's express knowledge (Ley 3729, Article 9).