HIV and Disability Law

Sean Strub, long-term AIDS survivor, was the subject of a feature in Sunday’s New York Times. Founder of POZ magazine, he mused over the last few decades, friends lost, priorities shifed. Now he’s returned to activism.
“So many contemporaries had died that, at 51, he now has friends who are mostly older [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Prolific Blogger Juston Hayford over at the AIDS Legal Counsel of Chicago takes on the New York Times:
“So have you read the idiotic column in the New York Times by the self-appointed “Ethicist,” Randy Cohen? This chowderhead seems to be operating on pre-1983 knowledge of HIV. Here’s the link to the original article
‘In his [...]

Today’s New York Times reports that “The United Nations AIDS agency has joined the chorus of politicians and activists critical of Pope Benedict XVI for saying as he embarked on a tour of Africa this week that condoms “increase the problem” of the disease. With more than 7,400 new infections of H.I.V., which causes AIDS, [...]

The international AIDS community is buzzing with anxiety over
unconfirmed reports that the Obama administration may hold down
American financing for international AIDS programs that need
greatly increased support,” a New York Times editorial says,
adding “We hope that the new budget blueprint to be released
this week will leave enough room to grant these and other vital
health programs the [...]