HIV and Disability Law

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The New York TImes reports a story of a San Francisco man who went to a neighborhood clinic for testing… “Staff members tested him for H.I.V. twice: first with a standard rapid test, which detects H.I.V. antibodies in saliva or a drop of blood, then with a blood test for genetic traces of the virus [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]