TX :: Child Protective Services Handbook :: 11500 HIV Testing and Care for Children in DFPS Conservatorship :: 11521 Required Notification About a Child's HIV Status

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If a child in DFPS conservatorship tests positive for HIV infection, the caseworker must notify the following parties of the child's condition:

• the child's legal parents (if parental rights have not been terminated and their whereabouts are known);

• current and prospective foster parents, 24-hour child-care providers, prospective adoptive parents, or relatives with whom the child has been placed or with whom DFPS plans to place the child; and

• the medical consenters.

DFPS Rules, 40 TAC §700.1403External Link

TX :: Child Protective Services Handbook :: 11500 HIV Testing and Care for Children in DFPS Conservatorship :: 11521 Required Notification About a Child's HIV Status

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