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  1. AIDS Support Group of Cape Cod, Inc. v. Town of Barnstable, Civil Action No. BACV2015-00586 (2015).

    The Barnstable County Superior Court of Massachusetts granted a preliminary injunction preventing enforcement of a cease and desist order against a needle distribution program of the AIDS Support Group of Cape Cod, Inc. (ASGCC). The program distributes cl ...

    admin - 9/21/2016 3:08pm

  2. Routes, Risks And Realities Of HIV Transmission And Care: Current Scientific Knowledge And Medical Treatment, The Center for HIV Law and Policy

    This fact sheet is part of a larger effort to replace that ignorance with information about what is currently well-known about how HIV is and is not transmitted, and how modern HIV care has transformed the health and longevity of people living with HIV. ...

    admin - 11/21/2016 4:33pm

  3. Recommendations for Updates to the National HIV/AIDS strategy

    The Center for HIV Law and Policy joined with a group of almost twenty other organizations and individuals in endorsing this statement sent to Douglas Brooks, Director, and the Office of National AIDS Policy, recommending critical updates to the National H ...

    admin - 10/22/2015 10:01am

  4. United States v. Gutierrez, No. 13-0522 Crim. App. No. 37913, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces (2015)

    With this ruling the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces reversed the conviction by general court martial of an air force sergeant on a charge of aggravated assault for having consensual sex, both with and without condoms, with multiple par ...

    admin - 10/22/2015 10:01am

  5. Estimating Per-Act HIV Transmission Risk: A Systematic Review, Patel et al, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2014

    This study updates previous risk estimates of HIV transmission from parenteral (intravenous), vertical (mother to fetus), and sexual exposures, and assesses the modifying effects of numerous factors including condom use, male circumcision, and antiretrovir ...

    admin - 10/22/2015 11:15am

  6. Undetectable Blood Viral Load and HIV Transmission Risk: Results of a Systematic Review, James Wilton, CATIE (2013).

    CATIE aims to provide people living with HIV (PLWH) or hepatitis C, at-risk communities, health care providers, and community organizations with up-to-date resources and expertise to reduce transmission and improve quality of life. This article provides a ...

    admin - 8/27/2014 1:24pm

  7. Syringe Ban Community Letter to the Chairman of the United States House and Senate Appropriation and Labor Subcommittees, Drug Policy Alliance et al. (2014)

    This letter, written by members of communities that have been affected by heroin and prescription drug injection use, calls on Senators Barbara Mikulski and Tom Harkin, and Representatives Hal Rogers and Jack Kingston, to lift the ban on federal funding fo ...

    admin - 10/22/2015 11:35am

  8. Likely Female-to-Female Sexual Transmission of HIV – Texas, 2012, Shirley K. Chan et al., Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (2014)

    This report describes a case of HIV transmission likely by sexual contact between female partners. It describes the likely female-to-female transmission of HIV in a lesbian couple who had unprotected sex during a six-month monogamous relationship. ...

    admin - 10/22/2015 11:34am

  9. United States v. Hurts, 2014 CCA LEXIS 284 (2014)

    This United States Army Court of Criminal Appeals decision held that if the likelihood of infection from HIV was not more than a remote possibility, a servicemember could not be convicted of assault with a means likely to produce death or grievous bodily h ...

    admin - 10/22/2015 11:26am

  10. HIV and Viral Hepatitis Fact Sheet, Centers for Disease Control (March 2014)

    People with HIV are disproportionately affected by viral hepatitis, with about a 25% coinfection rate with hepatitis C virus (HCV) and a 10% coinfection rate with hepatitis B virus (HBV). This CDC HIV and Viral Hepatitis fact sheet provides an overview of ...

    admin - 7/14/2014 10:59am

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