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Teen SENSE Model Staff Training Standards, Center for HIV Law and Policy (2012)
The Teen SENSE Model Staff Training Standards are designed to ensure that all staff of foster care, detention, and other government operated and regulated youth facilities ... More
Teen SENSE Model Sexual Health Care Standards, Center for HIV Law and Policy (2012)
The Teen SENSE Model Sexual Health Care Standards are designed to reflect the minimum requirements that facilities should meet in order to appropriately address the ... More
Teen SENSE Model Sexual Health Education Standards, Center for HIV Law and Policy (2012)
The Teen SENSE Model Sexual Health Education Standards are designed to reflect the minimum requirements of curricula that meet the sexual health knowledge needs of LGBTQ ... More
Efficacy of Behavioral Interventions to Increase Condom Use and Reduce Sexually Transmitted Infections: A Meta-Analysis, 1991 to 2010, Lori A. J. Scott-Sheldon et al., J. AIDS (2011)
Researchers at The Miriam Hospital's Centers for Behavioral and Preventive Medicine and the University of Connecticut released a report last month demonstrating that ... More
Department of Health and Human Services v. State of Florida - Amicus Brief, Supreme Court of the United States (January 13, 2012)
In March 2010, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, commonly referred to as the ACA, was signed into law. The law reforms aspects of the private health ... More
Understanding State Departments of Health and Corrections Collaboration: A Summary of Survey Findings — Part I, NASTAD (2011)
This report by Positive Justice Project member NASTAD provides a summary of health departments' relationships with state departments of corrections (DOC) regarding ... More
Understanding State Departments of Health and Corrections Collaboration: A Summary of Survey Findings — Part II and Strategic Guidance towards ending criminalization-related stigma and discrimination, NASTAD (2011)
This report by Positive Justice Project member NASTAD provides a summary of health departments' awareness of any policies and practices that unjustly sanction persons ... More
New York City’s Initiatives on Diabetes and HIV/AIDS: Implications for Patient Care, Public Health, and Medical Professionalism, Janlori Goldman et al., Am. J. Public Health (2008)
(The following summary is excerpted in part from the article's abstract): "Two recent [at article's publication] New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene ... More


January 2012
The Center for HIV Law and Policy Releases First Set of Standards for the Sexual Health Care of Youth in Detention and Foster Care Centers

New York, January 26, 2012 – The Center for HIV Law and Policy (CHLP) released today the first set of standards created to ensure that sexual health care is included in basic medical services for young people in detention and other types of state custody, and that it meets minimum requirements for competent care.

Submit Comments to HHS on the Essential Health Benefits (EHB) Bulletin by January 31

The HIV Health Care Access Working Group (HHCAWG) encourages organizations and individuals to submit comments to HHS on the Essential Health Benefits (EHB) bulletin by January 31, 2012.

Obama Administration Ensures Near-Universal Access to Contraceptive Coverage

HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced today that most employers will be required to cover contraception in their health plans with no co-pays or deductibles.

Positive Justice Project

The goals of the Positive Justice Project are to repeal HIV criminalization statutes and end HIV-specific prosecutions, increased punishment, and government-sponsored discrimination against people with HIV in the criminal justice system.

Teen SENSE

The Center for HIV Law and Policy's Teen SENSE initiative advances the principle that respect and accommodation for all gender expression and sexual orientation is central to HIV prevention and sexual health.

Women's Advocacy Resource Connection

The WARC initiative is our response to an increasing need for advocacy models that help to alter these patterns by clarifying and extending women's options and rights.

December 2011
We Have a Long Way to Go For Zero Discrimination

by Beirne Roose-Snyder and Catherine Hanssens

On the eve of this year's World AIDS Day, which had a theme of "Getting to Zero: Zero New HIV Infections. Zero Discrimination and Zero AIDS Deaths," we were contacted about the latest sad story of what people with HIV still have to deal with.

November 2011
Let’s Talk About Sex And The City

by Lauren Tetenbaum, JD/LMSW, Teen SENSE Consultant


In August of this year, the New York City government announced a mandate in which schools are required to teach a semester of comprehensive ("abstinence-plus") sexual health education in 6th or 7th grade and again in 9th or 10th grade.
 

October 2011
Hormonal Contraception and HIV: Weighing the Evidence and Balancing the Risks

by Jodi Jacobson, Editor-in-Chief, RH Reality Check
Originally published at RH Reality Check

An article in yesterday's New York Times by Pam Belluck suggesting that injectable contraceptive use might double the risk of HIV transmission among women and their partners sent a wave of anxiety through the global public health community.

 

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