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Good Intentions, Bad Consequences: How Congress’S Efforts To Eradicate Hiv/Aids Stifle The Speech Of Humanitarian Organizations, Garima Malhotra Jan 2012

Good Intentions, Bad Consequences: How Congress’S Efforts To Eradicate Hiv/Aids Stifle The Speech Of Humanitarian Organizations, Garima Malhotra

Catholic University Law Review

No abstract provided.


Affixing Blame: Ideologies Of Hiv/Aids In Thailand, Tarik Abdel-Monem May 2003

Affixing Blame: Ideologies Of Hiv/Aids In Thailand, Tarik Abdel-Monem

San Diego International Law Journal

This Article focuses on ideologies of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Thailand, one of many nations where the HIV/AIDS pandemic has reached alarming levels. Not unlike other nations struggling with HIV/AIDS, an epidemic of stigma and blame has developed in Thailand with increasing rates of infection among the population. Understandings of whom to blame for the epidemic, and how to realize appropriate solutions, have likewise developed as the epidemic continues to persist and spread. This Article examines these ideologies and how they are mediated through the lens of popular culture in contemporary Thailand. It attempts to examine the reasoning of such …


Hiv Name Reporting And Partner Notification In New York State, Sonia Bhatnager Jan 1999

Hiv Name Reporting And Partner Notification In New York State, Sonia Bhatnager

Fordham Urban Law Journal

This Article focuses on a 1998 New York law that required physicians and other health officials to report individuals who test positive for HIV, AIDS, or other HIV-related illnesses to the municipal health commissioner. As New York has the highest rate of reported AIDS cases, the Article notes that the state's decision to enact this law could have significant influence on other states. It begins by describing the partner notification system laws in the United States, and then presents arguments for and against partner notification. The Article ultimately argues for a modified version of the New York law. This refined …


Under Age: A Minor's Right To Consent To Health Care, Nancy Batterman ,Esq. Jan 1994

Under Age: A Minor's Right To Consent To Health Care, Nancy Batterman ,Esq.

Touro Law Review

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