Advertisement
The Body: The Complete HIV/AIDS Resource Follow Us Follow Us on Facebook Follow Us on Twitter
Professionals >> Visit The Body PROThe Body en Espanol
Home Page for TheBody.com, the Complete HIV/AIDS Resource What's New About HIV Ask the Experts About HIV HIV/AIDS Blogs Connect With Others About HIV Just Diagnosed With HIV HIV Treatment HIV Prevention Living With HIV Personal Stories of People With HIV
HIV/AIDS Blog Central

Catherine Hanssens, Esq.

HIV Law & Policy


AIDS Criminals and Innocent Victims: Is There Anything Wrong With This Picture?
September 29, 2009

On September 18th, ABC's "20/20" program aired a piece on five Texas women who slept with "HIV criminal" 53-year-old Philippe Padieu, convicted and sentenced to five concurrent 45-year sentences for infecting these women with HIV after failing to disclose his HIV status and having unprotected sex with them. I anticipated yet another sensationalized "expose'" pitting one or more unaware female victims against the evil person with HIV, narrated by a stunningly uninformed member of the media. Sad to say, I mostly got what I expected.

Read more …


Human Rights: When Officials Get Serious About HIV Prevention, This is Where They'll Start
August 31, 2009

Nearly three decades after the identification of the first cases of AIDS, our national dialogue continues to fail those living with HIV by failing to put human rights at the center of AIDS prevention and treatment.

Read more …


Community Engagement on HIV Policy: Are Town Halls Meaningful Enough?
August 25, 2009

This article is part of a special series this week focusing on HIV and AIDS in the United States. RH Reality Check is partnering with CHAMP, the AIDS Foundation of Chicago, the HIV Prevention Justice Alliance, and organizations such as the Center for HIV Law and Policy to highlight issues on domestic HIV and AIDS policy while several thousand people attend the National HIV Prevention Conference in Atlanta, Georgia.

Read more …
BLOG:
HIV Law & Policy

Catherine Hanssens has been active in HIV legal and policy issues since 1984. She is the executive director of the Center for HIV Law and Policy, the first national legal resource and strategy center for people with HIV and their advocates.

Previously, Hanssens lead the development of Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund's HIV litigation and policy work as the AIDS project director for eight years. During her earlier work with the AIDS Law Project of Pennsylvania, Hanssens created and managed a model on-site legal assistance program for single parents with HIV in Philadelphia-area hospitals and clinics that brought together legal, medical and social services.


More About Catherine:
Profile

Subscribe to Catherine's Blog:

Subscribe by RSSBy RSS ?

Subscribe by Email


Recent Posts:

September 29, 2009 - AIDS Criminals and Innocent Victims: Is There Anything Wrong With This Picture? A Blog Entry by Catherine Hanssens, Esq.

August 31, 2009 - Human Rights: When Officials Get Serious About HIV Prevention, This is Where They'll Start : A Blog Entry by Catherine Hanssens, Esq.

August 25, 2009 - Community Engagement on HIV Policy: Are Town Halls Meaningful Enough? A Blog Entry by Catherine Hanssens, Esq.

View All Posts


Articles by Catherine:

Lost in the Shuffle: Women's Right to Choose, Not Just Refuse, HIV Testing (March 4, 2009)

HIV and Young People: The Crisis Is Now (July 6, 2001)

For the rest of Catherine's articles, click here.

Interviews With Catherine:

This Month in HIV: Sex, Privacy and the Law When You're HIV Positive (October 2007)


A Brief Disclaimer:

The opinions expressed by TheBody.com's bloggers are entirely their own, and do not necessarily reflect the views of TheBody.com itself.
Advertisement