(1) These rules may be called the Jharkhand Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (Ombudsman and Legal Proceedings) Rules, 2020.
(2) These rules shall come into force on and with effect from the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.
2. Definitions- In these rules, unless the context otherwise requires, -
(a) "Act" means the Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (Prevention and Control) Act, 2017 (Central Act 16 of 2017);
(b) "Appropriate authority" means, unless otherwise notified, the National AIDS Control Organisation in the case of the Central Government and Jharkhand State AIDS Control Society in the case of Government of Jharkhand;
(c)"High burden districts" means districts notified as such by the appropriate authority from time to time;
(d) "Ombudsman" means an Officer appointed or designated by the State Government, as the case may be, under section 23 of the Act;
(e) "State Government" means the Government of Jharkhand in the Department of Health and Family Welfare; and
(f) The words and expressions used and not defined in these rules but defined in the Act, shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Act.
3. Provision of Diagnostic Facilities of HIV/AIDS, ART and Opportunistic Infections management- The Nation AIDS Control Organisation (Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Government of India) shall provide free diagnostic services related to HIV/AIDS and other opportunistic infections to all citizens in Government Health Facilities (Primary Health Centers or Community Health Centre or Sub Divisional Hospitals or District Hospitals or Government Medical Colleges and Hospitals). ART drugs shall be provided free of cost at all Government Health Facilities in accordance with the guidelines issued by National AIDS Control Organisation to all HIV positive persons.