HIV and Disability Law

Kevin Fenton is head of CDC’s director of the National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD and TB Prevention. at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Today he writes in a CNN article: ”
Every 9½ minutes someone’s brother, mother, sister, father, or neighbor becomes infected with HIV in the United States. That’s [...]

National HIV Testing Day (NHTD) is Saturday, June 27. As many organizations and individuals throughout the country participate in NHTD events, we join our colleagues in supporting expanded HIV testing that is voluntary, informed, and supported by health care and other services.
If you have not already done so, we urge you [...]

25 June 2009 — Today, leading U.S. media companies announced a new coordinated national campaign to mobilize Black Americans in response to AIDS and promote specific calls-to-action to prevent and reduce the further spread of HIV. Greater Than AIDS is a multi-faceted campaign presented under a common brand that includes targeted public service ads. [...]

Around the country, cities are staging events to draw young people in to be tested. In Houston, a big concerts and Hip Hop event was held earlier in the week, Read on for other communities’ efforts, led by creative plans in Cinncinati:
…throughout the country, commmunity leaders and activists will urge people to get tested [...]

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 [...]

The Philadelphia Inquirer columnist Monica Yant Kinney today reports on a dispute that, even in new Jersey, is considered pretty morbid:
After three years, I’m pleased to report that a David vs. Goliath dispute that drew international outrage was won by David.
Only this little guy is a gal. She’s known here as M. Smith, since not [...]

The Cincinnati Enquirer examined how the “success stories” of people living longer with HIV – such as that of former National Basketball Association player Earvin “Magic” Johnson – can “illustrate how well anti-HIV medications work and might be part of the reason the epidemic still rages.” The article discussed the efficacy of antiretrovirals, [...]

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Tuesday sent state
lawmakers a plan to reduce more than $5 billion in spending that
includes cuts to HIV/AIDS services, the Los Angeles Times and the San Francisco Chronicle report. The proposed cuts include $55.5 million in California’s AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP) and other state Office of AIDS programs.
According to the [...]

Low CD4 cells are not the only risk factor for non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (NHL) in people living with HIV. A persistently high viral load may also up the chances of developing this potentially life-threatening cancer, according to German researchers reporting study results in the July 1 issue of The Journal of Infectious Diseases.
Though combination antiretroviral therapy [...]

As viral load increases so does the risk of kidney problems, according to a study published in the June 1 issue of AIDS and reported by aidsmap. Fortunately, with decreases in viral load and increases in CD4 cells resulting from antiretroviral (ARV) treatment, kidney function is likely to improve.
Studies show that kidney failure and reduced [...]