HIV and Disability Law

THe Kaiser HIV Network today reports that using HIV-positive people’s social network is “an efficient, high-yield” method of contacting their partners who are at high-risk for the virus and providing them with testing and other HIV-related services, CDC researchers said in a recently published study, Reuters Health reports.
For the study, which appears online in [...]

POZ/AIDSMeds web site has published a lengthy article with cautions for people living with HIV and AIDS, giving information on health precautions. We suggest sharing this information widely. The link to the site is below.
“The threat of a swine flu epidemic in the United States has many people living with HIV concerned about [...]

Less than a year after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recalculated the size of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and announced that there were 40 percent more new HIV infections each year than previously believed, a new survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation finds that Americans’ sense of urgency about HIV/AIDS as a national [...]

Antiretroviral treatment for up to 1.7 million HIV-positive
people worldwide is “under threat” because of the current
economic crisis, according to a report released on Friday by the
World Bank, the Financial Times reports.
The report examined the effect of the economic crisis on 69 of the most impoverished countries worldwide and found that 15 believed they are [...]

The Obama administration has reversed a decades-old policy and approved federal funding for needle-exchange programs, and some advocates and others who work with injection drug users worldwide are welcoming the shift in U.S. policy, the Christian
Science Monitor reports. Gerry Stimson, executive director of the International Harm Reduction Association, said that the U.S.
“has been a big [...]

Today’s New York Times features an editorial emphasizing current US complaceny about AIDS within our borders, and the need testing.
“The AIDS epidemic is spreading faster than previously thought,
even as the American public’s concern about it declines,” the New
York Times editorial says, adding, “That dangerous disconnect
underscores the urgency of a new campaign announced by the [...]

President Obama’s administration in its fiscal year 2010 budget
proposal could flat-line global HIV/AIDS funding at its current
level of $5.3 billion, some congressional aides and lobbyists
said recently, the Lancet reports. According to the Lancet, the
possible funding freeze for global health programs such as the
President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief might indicate that
Obama’s “stated goal of expanding [...]

The Immigration Equality Blog reports:
Progress on the HIV Ban — Two Steps Forward
Proposed Regulations Move from Heath and Human Serives to to OMB
Last Friday (April 10), HHS forwarded regulations to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review. We won’t know the content of the regulations until HHS publishes them as a proposed rule, [...]

“When it comes to fighting the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the United
States, there is an alarming complacency among Americans,” a
Washington Post editorial says. It adds, “Perhaps it’s the
success of antiretroviral drug treatments. In the eyes of many,
those drugs have transformed the disease from one with no cure
to a manageable ailment.” It might be the “view that [...]

Today’s Huffington Post has a great article on the differences between Medicare and Medicaid - this is often a point of confusion for people applying for Social Security disability. People granted Social Security benefits are eligible for federal Medicare after the first 24 months of checks. Medicaid is a state program, sometimes called [...]