HIV and Disability Law

The death rates of children living with HIV have decreased ninefold since combination antiretroviral (ARV) therapy became widely available in the mid-1990s, according to results from a large pediatric HIV study published in the December 15 issue of the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes. But there’s still tremendous room for improvement: Young people with [...]

People with HIV responding well the antiretroviral (ARV) therapy commonly experience at least minor signs of thinking and memory problems, according to a study published online December 7 in AIDS. Most problems were so minor, however, that people didn’t realize they had any dysfunction. The study does not predict whether or how rapidly these problems [...]

POZ magazine reports that the XIX International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2012) will be held July 2012 in Washington, DC. As the custodian of the conference, the International AIDS Society (IAS) made the decision because the United States is repealing its HIV travel ban, effective January 4, 2010. The last time the conference was held in [...]

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention approved the
regulation to lift the HIV travel and immigration ban. Now the
regulation just needs to be approved by the White House Office of
Management and Budget (OMB). If and when OMB approves the change, this
will be the final regulatory step in a more-than decade long nightmare. Original story [...]

Sean Strub, long-term AIDS survivor, was the subject of a feature in Sunday’s New York Times. Founder of POZ magazine, he mused over the last few decades, friends lost, priorities shifed. Now he’s returned to activism.
“So many contemporaries had died that, at 51, he now has friends who are mostly older [...]

From aidsmeds.com
People with depression were almost twice as likely to have HIV treatment adherence problems as people who were not depressed, according to an article in the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes.
Depression has been found in several studies to negatively affect the ability of people living with HIV to take their medications on [...]

Today’s San Francisco Chronicle reports that for the first time, an experimental vaccine has prevented infection with the AIDS virus, a watershed event in the deadly epidemic and a surprising result. Recent failures led many scientists to think such a vaccine might never be possible.
the World Health Organization and the U.N. agency UNAIDS said the [...]

A new report authored by the Kaiser Family Foundation and the National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors (NASTAD) shows that the nation’s overall funding for HIV prevention programs has been relatively flat in recent years while an estimated 56,000 people continue to become infected each year in the U.S.
Based on a survey of [...]

U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Andrew Cuomo today awarded $23.6 million to programs in 17 states to provide housing and related support services to more than 2,700 low-income people with HIV/AIDS and their families.
The grants are part of HUD’s Housing Opportunities for Persons With AIDS (HOPWA) program, which is distributing about $232 million total [...]

From aidsmeds.com today:
“Due to a number of recent studies showing detrimental effects of uncontrolled HIV replication—even at fairly high CD4 cell counts—international HIV treatment guidelines may begin recommending that people start ARV therapy when their CD4 counts drop below 500. The current recommendation is to start treatment at 350.”
If HIV treatment guidelines were updated to [...]