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HIV Law Project | Center for Women & HIV Advocacy How Does Health Care Reform Impact People Living with HIV/AIDS?
Now that the reform process is finally over, here are some of the highlights of the legislation for people living with HIV/AIDS.
Equal Access to Justice for NYC PLWHAS
HIV Law Project demands the New York City Department of Health to address a discrepancy with HRSA policy that would expand legal services to people with AIDS in the city.
In Honor of National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day: Young Black Women Need HIV Prevention
While the President's recently released budget would fund teen pregnancy prevention, it neglects HIV prevention, harming young women, particularly young Black women.
World AIDS DAY 2009 Focuses on Human Rights
This year’s theme for World AIDS day is 'Universal Access and Human Rights.' Why focus on human rights? Human rights violations fuel the spread of HIV, especially among low-income and marginalized people.
HIV Ban Lifted After 22 Years — Still More Work To Be Done
After 22 years of discriminatory treatment of visitors and immigrants living with HIV/AIDS, the federal government published the final rule to remove HIV from the definition of communicable diseases of public health significance.
Speak Up: Washington Needs Your Input
The White House Office of National AIDS Policy (ONAP) has launched a website where you can submit testimony and/or supporting documents for consideration by the panel formulating National HIV/AIDS Strategy (NHAS).
Fifteen Contemporary Artists Contribute to HIV Law Project's 20th Anniversary Benefit
Get a sneak peak at the much-talked about silent auction art collection for HIV Law Project's 20th Anniversary Benefit on November 5, 2009, including works from China Adams, Richmond Burton, James Case-Leal, William Kentridge and ...
CENTER FOR WOMEN AND HIV ADVOCACY
Pre-Natal HIV Testing: What About Women's Rights?
Pregnant women with HIV routinely find their human and civil rights sacrificed in the name of the health of the fetuses they carry. The case of Ms. Tuleh is a vivid reminder of this reality.
Outside Witness Testimony On Comprehensive Sexuality Education Programs
HIV Law Project's Center for Women & HIV Advocacy recently submitted written testimony to the U.S. Senate's Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies. The testimony urged the Subcommittee to end all support for abstinence-only-until-marriage programs, and to support comprehensive sexuality education programming.
In Honor of Women & Girls’ HIV Awareness Day: Girls Have a Right to Know About HIV Prevention
Schools across the country routinely fail to provide girls and young women with comprehensive sexuality education – the cornerstone to HIV awareness and prevention.
Tell President Obama No More Money for Abstinence-Only-Until-Marriage Programs
Comprehensive sexuality education must become federal policy now if we hope to have a next generation of youth living free of HIV infection. Support science-based health and sexuality education -- our youth are depending on it!
Women and Girls HIV & AIDS Awareness Day 2008
arch 10 is National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day. Awareness comes with education. Comprehensive sex education should be at the core of prevention efforts. The CDC estimates that about 13 percent of the persons diagnosed with HIV in 2004 were young people, aged 13-24.
