HIV and Disability Law

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 [...]

Nearly 30 years after the discovery of HIV and AIDS, the
epidemic is still ravaging black neighborhoods in Baltimore and
across the nation,” Kevin Fenton — director of CDC’s National
Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD and TB Prevention –
writes in a Baltimore Sun opinion piece. Fenton writes that
“complacency about HIV and the continued stigma associated with
the disease [...]

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 [...]

The Chicago Tribune on Wednesday examined a CDC-funded program
in four Chicago hospitals that offers no-cost HIV tests to
emergency department patients. CDC in 2007 gave $35 million in
grants to 23 state and local health departments to implement the
no-cost HIV testing programs with a goal of testing one million
people, particularly blacks who account for about 50% of [...]