Online Resources
HIV Law Project offers a variety of resources that help tell our story. Use these resources to support community programs. All resources are available for you to download online right now.
Brochures
HIV Law Project: Planning for Your Children's Future (Planificacion del futuro de sus ninos)
(Brochure, PDF format, size 199 KB)
A Permanency Planning Guide for HIV-Positive Parents.
Una Guia sobre la Planificación del
futuro del Niño
para padres que
son VIH positivios
Power Point Presentations
Right to Informed Consent for HIV Testing
HIV Law Project's explore article 27-f of public health law as it supports the expansion of access to routine voluntary HIV testing throughout the general population.
Testimonies
The Uniting American Families Act: Addressing Inequality in Federal Immigration Law
HIV Law Project submitted testimony in support of the Uniting American Families Act, which would allow permanent partners of U.S. citizens and permanent residents to obtain permanent resident status ("green cards"). This proposed change in the law would lift a bar that prevents many of our clients from regularizing their immigration status.
Testimony before the New York State Black, Puerto Rican, Hispanic & Asian Legislative Caucus On Proposed Changes to NY State HIV Testing, Counseling, and Informed Consent Laws. June 2009
HIV Law Project testified in Albany about the importance of maintaining informed consent for HIV testing.
Outside Witness Testimony On Comprehensive Sexuality Education Programs. May 2009.
HIV Law Project's Center for Women & HIV Advocacy submitted written testimony to the U.S. Senate's Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies urging the Subcommittee to end all support for abstinence-only-until-marriage programs, and to support comprehensive sexuality education programming
Public Comment: Rule on Medical Examination of Aliens- Revisions to Medical Screening Process. December 2008
HIV Law Project responds to a proposed rule that would modify the list of communicable diseases of public health significance, while failing to remove HIV from that list, in effect maintaining the HIV travel ban for immigrants and visitors to the U.S.
Public Comment: Provider Conscience Rule. September 2008
HIV Law Project responds to a proposed regulation that would expand the ability of health care providers, insurers and health care institutions to refuse to provide health care services, as well as information and referrals, to patients.
Action Alerts & Advisories
ADA Amendment Advisory. July 2008
The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (“The ADA”) was enacted to protect people living with disabilities from discrimination based on those disabilities. Yet in the years since its passage, courts have eroded those protections by narrowing the scope of ADA coverage. The ADA Amendments Act of 2008 (“The Act”) would reverse the harm caused by these court decisions by explicitly calling for broad ADA coverage.
