P.R. Laws tit. 24, § 575-1
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It shall be required that all persons convicted to serve a prison term be subjected to the laboratory tests needed to determine whether they suffer from some sexually transmitted disease so that they may receive the necessary orientation and treatment and thus prevent its propagation, particularly the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), transmitter of the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS):
(a) At the time in which they enter the penal system, and
(b) prior to the date on which they are released.
History —June 4, 1983, No. 81, added as § 6 on Aug. 15, 1999, No. 235, § 1.