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  1. Administrative Judges Hearing Social Security HIV Disability Claims Shouldn't Play Doctor: ABIGAIL HERNANDEZ v. CAROLYN W. COLVIN, Acting Commissioner of Social Security, 2016 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 172454 (N.D. Ill. Dec. 14, 2016)

    [The following summary is excerpted from LGBT Law notes, The LeGaL Foundation of the LGBT Bar Association of Greater New York, January 2017, with thanks to Professor Arthur S. Leonard, New York Law School, Founder/Editor-in Chief, of LGBT Law Notes.] A wo ...

    admin - 1/31/2017 5:18pm

  2. Doe v. Infectious Disease Associates, P.A., C.A. No. N13C-12-218 MMJ (Del. Super. Ct. 2016).

    A Delaware trial court ordered health care provider Infectious Disease Associates, P.A. (‘IDA’) to pay more than $1.1 million to a man, suing anonymously as John Doe, who lost his job after IDA faxed information about his HIV-related treatment to his work ...

    admin - 8/8/2016 11:02am

  3. Cost-Effectiveness of HIV Preexposure Prophylaxis for People Who Inject Drugs in the United States, Cora L. Bernard, MS et al., Annals of Internal Medicine (2016)

    Many trials have shown daily oral preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP) can prevent HIV transmission. PrEP treatment is expensive, however, costing $10,000 annually even without regular HIV screening and adverse effects assessment recommended by the CDC. This em ...

    admin - 7/14/2016 10:56am

  4. The ACA and People with HIV: An Update, Lindsey Dawson et. al., The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation (2016)

    This report examines the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) effects on people living with HIV in California, Florida, New York, Georgia, and Texas, using focus groups conducted with people insured under the ACA in California and New York and people who remain un ...

    admin - 6/14/2016 3:46pm

  5. Settlement Agreement Between the United States of America and Mercy Suburban Hospital Under the Americans With Disabilities Act

    A Pennsylvania-area hospital whose surgeon refused to perform bariatric surgery on a woman because she is living with HIV settled an action brought by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) in which the hospital agreed to pay compensation to the woman in th ...

    admin - 10/12/2015 10:29am

  6. An HIV Cure and Vaccine within the Next 15 Years?

    Early in 2015, Bill Gates expressed optimism that a vaccine and a cure for HIV would be developed within the next fifteen years. There are certainly grounds for such optimism, with a number of studies, spanning back to 2009, providing promising results. On ...

    admin - 10/22/2015 9:59am

  7. Singletary v. Duffy, 2015 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 106219 (E.D. Calif., Aug. 11, 2015)

    CALIFORNIA – United States Magistrate Judge Kendall J. Newman dismissed HIV postive inmate Gondee Charles Singletary’s pro se complaint upon initial screening under 28 U.S.C. § 1915A(a), because it failed to show how the named defendants were responsible u ...

    admin - 3/9/2016 10:56am

  8. Confidentiality, Third-Party Billing, & the Insurance Claims Process: Implications for Title X, Abigail English, Robin Summers, Julie Lewis, and Clare Coleman, The National Family Planning & Reproductive Health Association (NFPRHA)

    Tthe National Family Planning & Reproductive Health Association (NFPRHA) issued this important white paper to address a complex question of major current concern- how to provide confidential health care services for individuals with health insurance wi ...

    admin - 5/1/2017 5:30pm

  9. Jones v. Diamontoni, Complaint, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, AIDS Law Project of Pennsylvania and Berger & Montague, P.C. (2014)

    This complaint was filed in December 2014 on behalf of a husband and wife – referred to by the pseudonym “Jones” – and their daughter, against Stephen G. Diamontoni, MD and Associates Family Practice, Dr. Jeffrey T. Trost, and Dr. William R. Vollmar, charg ...

    admin - 3/9/2016 11:03am

  10. Settlement Agreement Between the United States of America and Genesis Healthcare System Under the Americans with Disabilities Act, DJ# 202-58-112, (January 15, 2015)

    On January 15, 2015, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that Ohio-based Genesis Healthcare System will pay $25,000 in damages and a $9,000 civil penalty to resolve claims that it discriminated against a woman with HIV in violation of the Americ ...

    admin - 3/9/2016 11:07am

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