P.R. Laws tit. 24, § 575b

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§ 575b. Physicians, health professionals or representatives—Inadmissibility as evidence

The testimony and any documents of the Program that could identify patients and their sexual partners shall be inadmissible as evidence except in those cases in which the patient or sexual partner so authorizes. Provided, That the physician, health professional or representative shall be prevented from disclosing the content of the information they have become aware of as a result of his/her intervention with the patient or the patient’s sexual partner.

History —June 4, 1983, No. 81, p. 180, added as § 7 on July 2, 1985, No. 50, p. 177, § 1; renumbered as § 8 on Aug. 15, 1999, No. 235, § 3; Apr. 6, 2008, No. 36, § 4.