HIV and Disability Law

The Boston Globe reports that President Obama today named the person who will coordinate federal efforts on HIV/AIDS.
Jeffrey S. Crowley, MPH, Senior Research Scholar at Georgetown University’s Health Policy Institute, will be director of the Office of National AIDS Policy.
“Jeffrey Crowley brings the experience and expertise that will help our nation address the ongoing HIV/AIDS [...]

Many people living with AIDS are thriving under the care of their expert physicians. As medicine evolves and specialists gain more experience, the profoundly disabled patient becomes more rare. Still, every person processes the infection and the medications individually, and some do reach the point of inability to work. We see this [...]

The California AIDS Healthcare Foundation is suing the California State Department of Health Care Services, alleging the agency did not follow federal and state law in its contracting process for the provision of health care services for Medi-Cal recipients living with AIDS. The Los Angeles-based nonprofit contends the legal action is necessary because of what [...]

Overpayment notices arrive like incoming missiles, shattering the fragile stasis of the lives of disability paymnet recipients. Frequently there are errors in the notices, many caused by Social Secuity itself. A common situation is one where the client has reported income and Social Security has failed to record it. Often a skilled advocate can challenge [...]

Today Lambda Legal and the AIDS Resource Center of Wisconsin (ARCW) announced the filing of a federal lawsuit today in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin on behalf of Melody Rose, a 35-year-old Wisconsin woman who was denied surgery to remove her gallbladder because she has HIV.
“Discrimination in healthcare remains a [...]