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Public Hearing On Evaluation Of Needle Exchange Programs As A Way To Combat Aids, Senate Committee On Health And Human Services
Public Hearing On Evaluation Of Needle Exchange Programs As A Way To Combat Aids, Senate Committee On Health And Human Services
California Senate
No abstract provided.
Equitable Access To Biomedical Advances: Getting Beyond The Rights Impasse, Wendy K. Mariner
Equitable Access To Biomedical Advances: Getting Beyond The Rights Impasse, Wendy K. Mariner
Faculty Scholarship
In 1988, gay rights activists and supporters demonstrated outside a Food and Drug Administration building demanding unrestricted access to experimental drugs being tested for the treatment of human immunodeficiency virus ("HIV") infection and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome ("AIDS").2 Across the ocean in France, in October of the same year, came an equally insistent demand from women's groups, scientists, and family planning agencies that the pharmaceutical company Groupe Roussel Uclaf put its abortifacient RU 486 back on the market.' Early in 1989, people were outraged when newspapers reported that New Hampshire's Medicaid program would not pay for a life-saving bone marrow …
Oversight Hearing: State Plan For Aids/Hiv Disease, Senate Select Committee On Aids
Oversight Hearing: State Plan For Aids/Hiv Disease, Senate Select Committee On Aids
California Senate
No abstract provided.
Aids Research Center At San Francisco General Hospital, Joint Legislative Budget Committee
Aids Research Center At San Francisco General Hospital, Joint Legislative Budget Committee
California Joint Committees
The Joint Legislative Budget Committee held a public hearing on February 27, 1989, in Room 112, and March 6, 1989, in Room 3191, at the State Capitol in Sacramento to study the issue of the AIDS Research Center at San Francisco General Hospital. This report represents the outgrowth of that discussion.
Aids And Government: A Plan Of Action, Taunya L. Banks
Aids And Government: A Plan Of Action, Taunya L. Banks
Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Aids And Divorce, Andrew Schepard
Aids And Divorce, Andrew Schepard
Hofstra Law Faculty Scholarship
AIDS is the greatest public health challenge of the late twentieth century. It is a frightening disease, inevitably fatal to its victims. We do not know who among us carries the virus that causes AIDS; symptoms may not become visible for years after infection. Yet, we do know that the numbers of people potentially afflicted are staggering. There is no cure, no miracle vaccine, in sight.
Inevitably, some people infected with the AIDS virus, will be married, parents, and involved in disintegrating relationships with their spouses. AIDS-related problems will be a focal point of their divorces. Indeed, such cases are …
Aids, Astrology, And Arline: Towards A Causal Interpretation Of Section 504, Gary S. Lawson
Aids, Astrology, And Arline: Towards A Causal Interpretation Of Section 504, Gary S. Lawson
Faculty Scholarship
Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 provides that ‘[n]o otherwise qualified individual with handicaps shall, solely by reason of his handicap, be excluded from the participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under [any federal or federally funded program].’1 In School Board v. Arline,2 the Supreme Court held that a school teacher with a history of infectious tuberculosis was an ‘individual with handicaps' protected by section 504,3 and that the determination of whether she was ‘otherwise qualified’ to teach elementary school required a sound medical assessment of the risks …