HIV and Disability Law

The death rates of children living with HIV have decreased ninefold since combination antiretroviral (ARV) therapy became widely available in the mid-1990s, according to results from a large pediatric HIV study published in the December 15 issue of the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes. But there’s still tremendous room for improvement: Young people with [...]

From Medscape Medical News:
Liver Transplant Outcomes: HIV-Positive Patients Similar to General Population
July 17, 2009 (New York, New York) — HIV-positive patients who undergo cadaveric liver transplantation have graft and survival rates equal to those of HIV-negative patients, but those co-infected with hepatitis C virus or who are HCV positive alone have suboptimal outcomes, according to [...]

Twenty-six people representing a coalition of five HIV/AIDS groups from
Washington, D.C., Philadelphia and New York were arrested on Thursday for
unlawfully demonstrating in the Capitol rotunda, the AP/Washington Post report.
According to Politico, the protestors were demanding “congressional
action on three AIDS priorities: the end of the federal ban on syringe
exchange, increased housing funding for [people living [...]

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 [...]

Returning to Work: Legal Issues Overview
David W. Webber’s fine book AIDS and the Law maintains a wonderful web site www.aidsandthelaw.com. This essay appeared there several years ago, and I post it now because the information is always timely.
Recent advances in HIV treatment have made it possible for many people who have been [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]