HIV/AIDS-Related Discrimination Cases
- 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)
To read PDF, click here.
In Positively Aware, from Test Positive Aware Network
- Health Care Providers Settle With Justice Department Over Complaints of HIV Discrimination (June 6, 2012)
From AIDS.gov
 Did Burger King Fire One of Its Managers Because He Is HIV Positive? (May 8, 2012)
From TheBody.com
 Pennsylvania: AIDS Activists Step Up Call for Hershey Boycott (April 9, 2012)
In CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update, from U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Pennsylvania: The Hershey School Says It Acted Properly in Denying Admission to HIV-Positive Teen (February 8, 2012)
In CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update, from U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Lambda Legal and ARCW Resolve Discrimination Case on Behalf of HIV-Positive Woman Denied Surgery (December 28, 2011)
"When we brought this lawsuit, it put doctors everywhere on notice: you don't get a free pass to discriminate."
From Lambda Legal
 Great Expressions Dental Denies HIV Discrimination Claim; I Deny Their Denial: A Blog Entry by Brandon Lacy Campos (December 21, 2011)
"I received, at my work address of all places, an email from Great Expressions Dental. There is one of those funny little disclaimers at the end of the email suggesting that the email I received is not necessarily public information. I am the media and therefore I am reprinting this memo here, I love freedom of the press."
From TheBody.com
 California: Some Dentists Refuse to Serve People With HIV (December 15, 2011)
In CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update, from U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- AIDS Project of Pennsylvania's Suit Charges Boarding School Violated HIV-Positive Child's ADA Rights (December 14, 2011)
In CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update, from U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- HIV Positive Detroit Man Faces Massive Discrimination by Employer: The James White Story -- A Blog Entry by Brandon Lacy Campos (December 12, 2011)
"Rarely do I have a personal connection to the story. Today, I do, and the story is so horrific that I am committed to supporting justice. No one attacks my community and gets to walk away from their acts of violence."
From TheBody.com
 Columnists and Bloggers Weigh in on a 13-Year Old HIV-Positive Student Being Denied Admission to a Pennsylvania Boarding School (December 12, 2011)
From TheBody.com
 Remembering Ryan White and Thoughts on Milton Hershey School: A Video Blog Entry by Maria T. Mejia (December 7, 2011)
"As a person who talks to young people all the time, so many young people are having unprotected sex. And if they think that HIV is not going to affect them because they are not letting this kid go to their school, THEY ARE WRONG!"
From The Well Project
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