Telling other health care workers – A health care worker must get a patient’s permission before giving any of that patient’s medical information to another health care worker.

Telling a patient’s sexual partner – A health care worker may not tell the patient’s sexual partner that the patient has HIV, unless the partner appears to be at risk because the patient refuses to practice safer sex. The health care worker must counsel the patient on the need to tell their sexual partner and to practise safer sex. The health care worker must then warn the patient that if he or she does not tell their sexual partner or practise safer sex, then the health care worker will have to tell the partner about the person’s HIV status.

Telling a court – A court can order a health care worker to give them confidential information.