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Compilations of Laws and Cases
Document Type: Compilations of Laws and Cases  
Date: 2009  
Summary: This state-by-state reference sheet provides the relevant laws granting minors authority to consent to contraceptive services. According to the report, forty-six states ...
 
Document Type: Compilations of Laws and Cases  
Date: 2009  
Summary: This state-by-state reference sheet provides the relevant laws granting minors authority to consent to STI services and HIV testing and treatment. It also outlines the ...
 
 
Court and Agency Decisions and Orders
Document Type: Court and Agency Decisions and Orders  
Date: 2006-May-08  
Summary: In a case brought by the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, two organizations (AOSI and Pathfinder International) that received funding under the United ...
 
Document Type: Court and Agency Decisions and Orders  
Date: 1991-May-2  
Summary: Several medical organizations brought an Article 78 proceeding to compel the Commissioner of Health and the New York State Public Health Council to add HIV infection to ...
 
 
Executive Orders, Reports, and Directives
Document Type: Executive Orders, Reports, and Directives  
Date: 2010-July-13  
Summary: On July 13, 2010, the Obama administration released the National HIV/AIDS Strategy (NHAS) for the United States. The NHAS is the culmination of work and advocacy by people ...
 
Document Type: Executive Orders, Reports, and Directives  
Date: 2010-July-13  
Summary: The National HIV/AIDS Strategy (NHAS) Implementation Plan sets short term Federal benchmarks as well as longer-term mandates for multiple federal agencies responsible for ...
 
Document Type: Executive Orders, Reports, and Directives  
Date: 2010-July-13  
Summary: The President's Memorandum on the National HIV/AIDS Strategy (NHAS) summarizes the responsibilities of individual Federal agencies in outlining a strategy to meet the ...
 
 
International Commitments and United Nations Documents
Document Type: International Commitments and United Nations Documents  
Date: 2003-January  
Summary: General Comment No. 3 was issued by the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child to promote the realization of the human rights of children in the context of ...
 
Document Type: International Commitments and United Nations Documents  
Date: 1989-November-20  
Summary: The Convention on the Rights of the Child (“CRC”) is an international treaty that discusses many of the rights children, some of which are in addition to those ...
 
Document Type: International Commitments and United Nations Documents  
Date: 2007  
Summary: This Handbook is intended to guide a human-rights based response to HIV for national human rights institutions, civil society organizations, networks of people living with ...
 
Document Type: International Commitments and United Nations Documents  
Date: 2006  
Summary: A revised and consolidated version of the original guidelines published in 1996, the purpose of the Guidelines is “to assist States in creating a positive, ...
 
Document Type: International Commitments and United Nations Documents  
Date: 2006-June-16  
Summary: The Political Declaration, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in June 2006, renews the General Assembly’s commitment to the Declaration of Commitment on ...
 
 
Legal Guides
Document Type: Legal Guides  
Date: 2004  
Summary: This document summarizes the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) and describes the status of CEDAW in the United States, and ...
 
 
Letters and Other Advocacy Documents
Document Type: Letters and Other Advocacy Documents  
Date: 2006-February-10  
Summary: These comments were drafted by CHLP on behalf of several HIV legal and service organizations in response to a proposal by the FDA to revise condom package labeling ...
 
Document Type: Letters and Other Advocacy Documents  
Date: 2005-September-30  
Summary: This document contains comments on proposed changes to the New Jersey Administrative Code regarding New Jersey's "Manual of Requirements," which outlines the requirements ...
 
Document Type: Letters and Other Advocacy Documents  
Date: 2008-May-29  
Summary: In response to a CDC request for comments, 35 organizations endorsed these comments submitted to CDC regarding its draft guidance for implementing HIV testing expansion in ...
 
Document Type: Letters and Other Advocacy Documents  
Date: 2005-July-10  
Summary: Responding to the May 2005 draft report of the New York City Commission on HIV/AIDS, the Center for HIV Law and Policy drafted comments on behalf of SMART, Inc ...
 
Document Type: Letters and Other Advocacy Documents  
Date: 2008-October  
Summary: Since the beginning of the epidemic, people with HIV and their advocates have been calling on the President of the United States to take ...
 
Document Type: Letters and Other Advocacy Documents  
Date: 2007-October-03  
Summary: In response to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) push for expanded rapid testing with decreased attention on counseling and informed consent, a group ...
 
Document Type: Letters and Other Advocacy Documents  
Date: 2009-January  
Summary: These documents set forth recommendations for the incoming Obama administration to address the domestic HIV epidemic. They were drafted by CHLP and other national, state ...
 
Document Type: Letters and Other Advocacy Documents  
Date: 2010-August-17  
Summary: This letter is a call from local, state, and national HIV and adolescent sexual health organizations to eliminate funding for the Title V abstinence-only-until-marriage ...
 
Document Type: Letters and Other Advocacy Documents  
Date: 2006-February-01  
Summary: This letter, signed by over 65 organizations, including CHLP, protests the federal Department of Health and Human Services' removal of website, hosted by HHS' Substance ...
 
Document Type: Letters and Other Advocacy Documents  
Date: 2007-November-08  
Summary: Over 50 diverse non-profit organizations joined in submitting this letter to the members of the State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Conference ...
 
Document Type: Letters and Other Advocacy Documents  
Date: 2009-June  
Summary: This letter, authored by CHLP and joined by seventeen other organizations, opposes a proposed AMA resolution calling for mandatory testing of pregnant women (Resolution ...
 
Document Type: Letters and Other Advocacy Documents  
Date: 2007-August-23  
Summary: In this letter, Human Rights Watch addresses the damaging effects of criminalizing homosexuality as well as discriminatory abstinence-only programming in Uganda. The ...
 
Document Type: Letters and Other Advocacy Documents  
Date: 2007-September-10  
Summary: This statement reinforces the principle that HIV testing and counseling must be implemented in ways that maximize benefits to individuals and public health while ...
 
Document Type: Letters and Other Advocacy Documents  
Date: 2008  
Summary: This fact sheet provides brief arguments making the link between women's empowerment and positive health outcomes for women and newborns. It identifies specific legal, ...
 
 
Model and Sample Legislation
Document Type: Model and Sample Legislation  
Date: 2007-August-27  
Summary: This bill, subsequently passed by the Senate and signed by the Governor on September 11, 2007, allows HIV-positive men to have their sperm washed and used for fertility ...
 
Document Type: Model and Sample Legislation  
Date: 2007-January  
Summary: Sponsored by Representative Barbara Lee of California, the JUSTICE Act is an example of legislation that seeks to prevent the spread of HIV and other STIs in correctional ...
 
 
Pleadings and Briefs
Document Type: Pleadings and Briefs  
Date: 2005-September-23  
Summary: In a case brought by the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, two organizations (AOSI and Pathfinder International) that received funding under the United ...
 
 
Press--Releases, Articles, etc.
Document Type: Press--Releases, Articles, etc.  
Date: 2007-September-22  
Summary: On September 20, 2007, New York State Department of Health Commissioner Richard Daines announced that New York would no longer accept federal ...
 
Document Type: Press--Releases, Articles, etc.  
Date: 2009-July-09  
Summary: The Center for HIV Law and Policy (CHLP), along with thirteen organizations working to advance the health and rights of women living with HIV in the United States, sent a ...
 
 
Research and Journal Articles
Document Type: Research and Journal Articles  
Date: 2010-June-17  
Summary: This study reports strong evidence of the effectiveness of HIV antiretroviral therapy in substantially reducing the risk of HIV transmission from mother to child when ...
 
Document Type: Research and Journal Articles  
Date: 2007-September-12  
Summary: This paper discusses the results of two trials conducted in emergency rooms to compare patient comprehension of rapid HIV pre-test information using different methods to ...
 
Document Type: Research and Journal Articles  
Date: 2003  
Summary: This study challenges the rationale for the criminalization of HIV transmission by demonstrating that prosecutions of these case are unlikely to serve the public health ...
 
Document Type: Research and Journal Articles  
Date: 2001-September-01  
Summary: This report investigates differences in risk behaviors among men who have sex with men (MSM) who went to gay bathhouses, public cruising areas, or both. It finds that men ...
 
Document Type: Research and Journal Articles  
Date: 1998  
Summary: This paper discusses one of the first studies to report that interactive HIV/STD counseling leads to a reduction in the incidence of such STDs as gonorrhea, chlamydia, and ...
 
Document Type: Research and Journal Articles  
Date: 2006-June-01  
Summary: This statement outlines the differences between Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) HIV screening ...
 
Document Type: Research and Journal Articles  
Date: 2009-February-6  
Summary: This article provides the results of a survey of risk behavior and HIV testing behavior among young African-American men who have sex with men (MSM) in the Jackson, ...
 
Document Type: Research and Journal Articles  
Date: 2003-February-13  
Summary: This report summarizes results of an analysis of data from a survey of young men who have sex with men to compare HIV/STI risk differences between men who disclose that ...
 
Document Type: Research and Journal Articles  
Date: 2003-June-27  
Summary: This study compared individuals who tested positive for HIV early in the course of the disease with those who tested later in the course of the disease, and found that ...
 
Document Type: Research and Journal Articles  
Date: 2001-June-01  
Summary: In this article, a long-time expert on HIV in corrections and a vice-president at government and business consulting firm Abt Associates elaborates on what he considers ...
 
Document Type: Research and Journal Articles  
Date: 2007  
Summary: This article outlines the information currently available on the effects of HIV/AIDS and antiretroviral therapy on the menstrual cycle and menopausal symptoms and ...
 
Document Type: Research and Journal Articles  
Date: 2003-December-01  
Summary: This article presents results of focus groups of drug-involved women who have sex with men, conducted in Bridgeport, CT, Providence, RI, and San Juan, PR, to assess ...
 
Document Type: Research and Journal Articles  
Date: 2007  
Summary: (The following summary is excerpted from the article's abstract): Before the availability of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART), there was no clear effect of ...
 
Document Type: Research and Journal Articles  
Date: 2007-September  
Summary: (The following summary is excerpted from the article's abstract): The objective of the study was to evaluate the feasibility, acceptability, and accuracy of rapid human ...
 
Document Type: Research and Journal Articles  
Date: 2008-July  
Summary: This issue, published in English and Spanish, focuses on the rights of sex workers. It addresses: (1) police raids and "rescue" services that are often ...
 
Document Type: Research and Journal Articles  
Date: 2007-January-11  
Summary: This New England Journal of Medicine article examines many of the facts, perceptions, and proposed solutions to the HIV epidemic--and the behaviors and policies that drive ...
 
Document Type: Research and Journal Articles  
Date: 2008-June-23  
Summary: Believing that it is important to have a better understanding of the actual risks of HIV transmission through oral sex, the authors reviewed and summarized all available ...
 
Document Type: Research and Journal Articles  
Date: 2007-July  
Summary: This article discusses the implications of the U.S. Global AIDS Act of 2003, which requires that all organizations that receive federal AIDS funding have a policy that ...
 
Document Type: Research and Journal Articles  
Date: 2004-June  
Summary: This study explored patient perspectives on rapid and routine HIV testing among primarily minority patients in an urgent care center at an urban public hospital. The ...
 
Document Type: Research and Journal Articles  
Date: 1998  
Summary: This paper discusses a study in which small monetary incentives were found to enhance recruitment and retention in an HIV/STD prevention counseling intervention program. ...
 
 
Statutes, Regulations, and Agency Guidelines
Document Type: Statutes, Regulations, and Agency Guidelines  
Date: 2005-January-21  
Summary: Recommendations addressing administration, risk and effectiveness of antiretrovirals in preventing HIV infection when taken soon after a risky sexual or intravenous ...
 
Document Type: Statutes, Regulations, and Agency Guidelines  
Date: 2008-October  
Summary: These 2008 recommendations consolidate and replace the 1998 HIV Partner Counseling and Referral Services Guidance and the 2001 Program Operations Guidelines for STD ...
 
Document Type: Statutes, Regulations, and Agency Guidelines  
Date: 2008-July-08  
Summary: The July 2008 version of the guidelines includes language that reaffirms an HIV-positive pregnant woman’s right to retain control over treatment decisions that ...
 
Document Type: Statutes, Regulations, and Agency Guidelines  
Date: 2008-July  
Summary: Public Law No. 110-293 is the reauthorizing legislation of the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), originally authorized in 2003.  The 2008 Act ...
 
 
Testimony Before Legislative and Administrative Bodies
Document Type: Testimony Before Legislative and Administrative Bodies  
Date: 2006-June  
Summary: In his testimony before the National Prison Rape Elimination Commission, Dr. Robert Bidwell discusses the shortcomings of youth detention centers in protecting LGBT teens ...
 
 
Training Materials, Slides, Pamphlets
Document Type: Training Materials, Slides, Pamphlets  
Date: 2006  
Summary: Capacitación de Mujeres Jóvenes para Liderar el Cambio es una guía que ha sido diseñado para dar apoyo al desarrollo de las habilidades y ...
 
Document Type: Training Materials, Slides, Pamphlets  
Date: 2009-February  
Summary: This slide presentation, presented at the 2008 international "Sex, Rights, and the Law in a World with AIDS" conference in Cuernavaca, Mexico, analyzes the goals, ...
 
Document Type: Training Materials, Slides, Pamphlets  
Date: 2006  
Summary: This guide for young women and those working with them offers activities to motivate and enable young women to advocate for change and to mobilize others to do the same. A ...
 
Document Type: Training Materials, Slides, Pamphlets  
Date: 1999  
Summary: This fact sheet from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) outlines the ways in which HIV can and cannot be transmitted from one individual to another. HIV ...
 
Document Type: Training Materials, Slides, Pamphlets  
Date: 2009  
Summary: These slides provide detailed charts and graphs demonstrating HIV rates and trends among men who have sex with men (MSM) in the United States through 2007. Charts are ...
 
Document Type: Training Materials, Slides, Pamphlets  
Date: 2009-January-22  
Summary: This slide presentation demonstrates the need for HIV prevention efforts to fight homophobia and stigma as a contributing factor to rising HIV rates among gay and bisexual ...
 
Document Type: Training Materials, Slides, Pamphlets  
Date: 2008-January-14  
Summary: As Internet-based strategies gain in popularity, many service providers want to know how to protect their agencies and their staff from liability or legal complications ...
 
Document Type: Training Materials, Slides, Pamphlets  
Date: 2008  
Summary: This handout discusses reproductive health issues facing women living with HIV around the world. It argues that human rights and public health require women have control ...
 
 
White Papers and Reports
Document Type: White Papers and Reports  
Date: 2009  
Summary: This policy brief was issued to address the need for health care reform that comprehensively addresses the public need of those living with HIV/AIDS, particularly in the ...
 
Document Type: White Papers and Reports  
Date: 2007-September-04  
Summary: This commentary, published by the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network and endorsed by more than 40 organizations around the world, including the Center for HIV Law and Policy, ...
 
Document Type: White Papers and Reports  
Date: 2009-February  
Summary: This paper, presented at the 2008 international "Sex, Rights, and the Law in a World with AIDS" conference in Cuernavaca, Mexico, analyzes the goals, obstacles, ...
 
Document Type: White Papers and Reports  
Date: 2007  
Summary: This paper, jointly authored by the WHO, UNAIDS, and the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, discusses the reality of life in correctional settings and asserts that distribution ...
 
Document Type: White Papers and Reports  
Date: 2007  
Summary: This document presents examples of innovative approaches for engaging men and boys in changing gender-based health inequity and summarizes the evidence on the ...
 
Document Type: White Papers and Reports  
Date: 2008-March-01  
Summary: This fact sheet, created by the American Foundation for AIDS Research (amfAR), describes the rising rates of HIV/AIDS among women in the United States and worldwide, and ...
 
Document Type: White Papers and Reports  
Date: 2004  
Summary: This report reviews several studies conducted in the United States and in the developing world to determine the major barriers individuals—and in particular ...
 
Document Type: White Papers and Reports  
Date: 2007  
Summary: This is an analysis of how gender and sexuality influence HIV risks, transmission, and treatment, with an eye toward the obstacles that community service organizations ...
 
Document Type: White Papers and Reports  
Date: 2009  
Summary: This report examines the experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) youth in juvenile courts nationwide. Despite the fact that LGBT youth comprise a ...
 
Document Type: White Papers and Reports  
Date: 2006  
Summary: A fact sheet from the Global Campaign for Microbicides discussing the need for effective microbicides (topically applied products that prevent HIV and other STIs) for ...
 
Document Type: White Papers and Reports  
Date: 2004  
Summary: Because many women do not access health services outside of pregnancy, maternal health services provide an excellent resource for HIV interventions tailored to the needs ...
 
Document Type: White Papers and Reports  
Date: 2006  
Summary: Guttmacher Institute outlines the changing sexual and reproductive health needs of people living with HIV as the disease has become a manageable chronic disease. Included ...
 
Document Type: White Papers and Reports  
Date: 2009  
Summary: This is a guide focused on healthcare program managers, addressing gender issues in HIV testing and counseling, prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT), ...
 
Document Type: White Papers and Reports  
Date: 2004-February-17  
Summary: This guide aims to provide sexual and reproductive health program planners, managers, and providers with the information necessary to integrate voluntary counseling and ...
 
Document Type: White Papers and Reports  
Date: 2005-August-01  
Summary: This UNAIDS policy paper is aimed at those with a leadership role in HIV prevention, treatment and care. It highlights the need for strengthening HIV prevention, key ...
 
Document Type: White Papers and Reports  
Date: 2004  
Summary: The International Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS (ICW) describes and advocates for a human rights approach to dealing with the HIV/AIDS epidemic. The Paper ...
 
Document Type: White Papers and Reports  
Date: 2007  
Summary: The International Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS (ICW) reports on the results of its project Silent Voices, a program devoted to gathering the stories of ...
 
Document Type: White Papers and Reports  
Date: 2004  
Summary: This policy vision paper outlines the key priorities for women with HIV as identified by a group of young HIV positive women from across Eastern and Southern Africa who ...
 
Document Type: White Papers and Reports  
Date: 2004  
Summary: HIV-positive women need access not only to appropriate health care and antiretroviral medications, but also to HIV treatment support. This paper discusses the unique ...
 
Document Type: White Papers and Reports  
Date: 2009-May  
Summary: For this report, Public Agenda, with support from the National AIDS Strategy Coordinating Committee and the MAC AIDS Fund, conducted focus groups around the country to ...
 
Document Type: White Papers and Reports  
Date: 2008-August  
Summary: This timely report sets forth the severity of the HIV/AIDS epidemic among African Americans and the failure of the United States government to respond to this crisis. The ...
 
Document Type: White Papers and Reports  
Date: 2009-May  
Summary: This report, published by the International Treatment Preparedness Coalition (ITPC), investigates why the world is missing its target, set back in 2001, to reduce ...
 
Document Type: White Papers and Reports  
Date: 2009  
Summary: Strengthening strategic information systems and implementing interventions for the prevention and treatment of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections ("STIs") among ...
 
Document Type: White Papers and Reports  
Date: 2007  
Summary: (The following summary is excerpted from the article's abstract): This paper reviews the literature on the fertility-related needs of women and men living with HIV ...
 
Document Type: White Papers and Reports  
Date: 2007-September-20  
Summary: This report assesses the result of an extensive study of the abstinence-only-until-marriage programs In New York that received federal funding through 2006. Since1998, New ...
 
Document Type: White Papers and Reports  
Date: 2008-April-23  
Summary: This report prepared by the Center for Health and Gender Equity focuses on the role that female condoms can play in HIV prevention, and how the U.S. needs to be the leader ...
 
Document Type: White Papers and Reports  
Date: 2009-July  
Summary: This report represents conclusions reached at a 2009 conference sponsored by the International Center for Research on Women, aids2031, the United Nations Development ...
 
Document Type: White Papers and Reports  
Date: 2006-March-01  
Summary: This report summarizes discussion from two international electronic fora in which advocates, service providers, and HIV-positive women discussed services and policies ...
 
Document Type: White Papers and Reports  
Date: 2007-June-07  
Summary: The Center for HIV Law and Policys (CHLP) legal and policy outline for advocating for sexual health and HIV prevention programming for youth in state custody. Youth in the ...
 
Document Type: White Papers and Reports  
Date: 2008  
Summary: This report is an update of the 2002 Southern States Manifesto, which described the disproportionate impact of the HIV epidemic on communities in the Southern states as ...
 
Document Type: White Papers and Reports  
Date: 2010-January-7  
Summary: The U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) report on sexual abuse of youth in juvenile corrections facilities confirms that sexually abuse occurs ...
 
Document Type: White Papers and Reports  
Date: 2005  
Summary: This report discusses relationships between homelessness and health and puts them in context by studying the health of the homeless population in New York City. As the ...
 
Document Type: White Papers and Reports  
Date: 2005  
Summary: Most of the items in this toolkit focus on HIV prevention in sex work settings. Less information is available on treatment, care and support for sex workers living with ...
 
Document Type: White Papers and Reports  
Date: 2008-January  
Summary: This report provides an in-depth analysis of the overwhelming racial disparities in health care access and treatment in the United States, and approaches the problem as a ...