HIV/AIDS-Related Discrimination Cases

See also: Legal Issues and HIV/AIDS

HIV/AIDS Legal Assessment Tool Aims to Tackle HIV-Related Discrimination (January 29, 2013)
In Kaiser Daily Global Health Policy Report, from Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
Is "AIDS Fatigue" Real? Media Coverage of HIV/AIDS Has Sharply Declined (December 6, 2012)
In Housing Works AIDS Issues Update, from Housing Works
NYC's Second Largest Realtor Guilty of Housing Discrimination Against People With AIDS (December 4, 2012)
Landmark federal decision finds that "evidence is not just 'a thick cloud of smoke,' it is a smoking gun."
In Housing Works AIDS Issues Update, from Housing Works
Justice Department: Fighting Discrimination Against People Living With HIV (December 4, 2012)
In Black AIDS Weekly, from Black AIDS Institute
Change in Law Necessary to Address HIV Discrimination (November 7, 2012)
In CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update, from U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Milton Hershey School Settles With "Abraham Smith" (September 24, 2012)
In Positive Voice, from National Association of People With AIDS
Caught on Tape: HIV Discrimination and Ignorance by a Police Officer in Michigan -- A Blog Entry by Aaron Laxton (September 19, 2012)
"Where does it end? We have to stand up and say 'We have rights! We have rights as those living with HIV, and no longer will we allow people to degrade us and put us down.'"
From TheBody.com
Police Video Prompts Allegations of HIV Discrimination (September 19, 2012)
From The American Independent
HIV Employment Discrimination Still an Issue in U.S., UK (July 24, 2012)
From AIDSmeds.com
Justice Dept. Settles HIV Bias Lawsuits (July/August 2012)
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In Positively Aware, from Test Positive Aware Network

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