2019 Delaware Code
Title 16 - Health and Safety
Chapter 7. Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Subchapter I Sexually Transmitted Disease Prevention and Control
§ 710 Minors — Treatment, consent, and liability for payment for care.
Any health facility or health-care professional may examine and provide treatment for an STD for any minor if such facility or professional is qualified to provide such examination or treatment. Consent to examination and treatment by a minor shall be controlled by §§ 707 and 708 of Title 13. The health-care professional in charge or other appropriate authority of the health facility or the health-care professional concerned shall prescribe an appropriate course of treatment for such minor. The fact of consultation, examination and treatment of such minor shall be strictly confidential and shall not be divulged by the facility or the health-care professional, including sending of a bill for such services to any persons other than the minor, except as follows:
(1) To persons providing consent pursuant to § 707 of Title 13 or persons informed of the minor’s testing and treatment under § 708 of Title 13;
(2) As is necessary to comply with the requirements of Chapter 9 of this title relating to child abuse investigations; or
(3) As is necessary to comply with the requirements of this chapter concerning the control and treatment of STDs, as well as the permitted dissemination of records and information under § 711 of this title.
66 Del. Laws, c. 334, § 1; 78 Del. Laws, c. 277, § 1.
