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In The Affirmative, Vol.3, No.3 (Mid-June/Mid-July 1996), Mike Martin, The Aids Project

In the affirmative (1993-1999)

No abstract provided.

Mandatory Hiv Screening Of Newborns: A Proposition Whose Time Has Not Yet Come , Suzanne M. Malloy

American University Law Review

No abstract provided.

Symposium Dialogue

NYLS Law Review

No abstract provided.

Hiv-Aids, Infected Surgeons And Dentists, And The Medical Profession's Betrayal Of Its Responsibility To Patients, Michael L. Closen

NYLS Law Review

No abstract provided.

Report Of The Ad Hoc Committee On Aids: Hiv-Infected Health Care Workers And Employment Discrimination Law, The Association Of The Bar Of The City Of New York *

NYLS Law Review

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The Lived Experiences Of People Living With Hiv Infection, Nongluck Suwisith

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

This phenomenological study was undertaken to describe the meaning of living with HIV infection. Descriptive phenomenology was utilised to investigate the lived experiences of persons who had human immunodeficiency virus infection (HIV/ AIDS), describe common elements, themes or patterns of lived experiences of persons with HIV / AIDS, and analyse the meaning of lived experiences of persons with HIV/ AIDS. Twelve Australians, experiencing HIV infection and participating in the community support groups in Perth, volunteered as participants. Two participated in the pilot study. The other ten participants were interviewed individually for the main study. Intensive open-end questions pertaining to the …

Aids Phobia, Public Health Warnings, And Lawsuits: Deterring Harm Or Rewarding Ignorance?, Wendy K. Mariner

Faculty Scholarship

Courts in more than a dozen states have decided cases in which a person has claimed money damages for his or her fear of getting acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). Although most courts have rejected such claims in the absence of actual exposure to the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), their reasoning has varied slightly from state to state. This article argues that negligence law should not permit people who are HIV negative to recover damages for an unfounded fear of AIDS. Public health statements intended to educate the public about preventing HIV transmission may have encouraged some fear-of-AIDS lawsuits against health …

Maine Aids Care (Summer 1995), Maine Medical Center's Aids Consultation Service

Maine AIDS Care (1994-1996)

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Calming Aids Phobia: Legal Implications Of The Low Risk Of Transmitting Hiv In The Health Care Setting, American Bar Association Aids Coordinating Committee

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

Scientists are concluding that the risk of becoming infected with the virus that causes AIDS based on transmission from an infected health care worker is infinitesimal: in fact, only one health care worker has ever been documented as the source of HN transmission to a patient. This Article sets forth the medical evidence concerning this low risk and argues that legal decision making should incorporate these facts into its analysis of legal problems involving HN-infected health care workers. The Article analyzes three areas of such legal decision making: (1) employment and related credentialing of HN-infected health care workers; (2) liability …

Yale Nurse, Yale School Of Nursing

Yale School of Nursing Alumni Newsletters and Magazines

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Confusion In The Courts: What To Do With Hiv-Positive And Aids-Infected Public Employees , Erika J. Crandall

Journal of Law and Health

This paper is divided into five sections. Part one deals with background information on AIDS. Part two discusses current federal legislation. Part three examines how AIDS falls under federal legislation and case law, including the resulting impact of hiring AIDS-infected individuals. Part four evaluates possible violations of the Fourth Amendment resulting from the federal legislation and from an employer's mandatory testing of employees for the HIV virus. The last section discusses the government's liability when a public employee transmits AIDS to another individual during the course of employment.

Global Ostracism Of Hiv-Positive Aliens: International Restrictions Barring Hiv-Positive Aliens, Sarah N. Qureshi

Maryland Journal of International Law

No abstract provided.

Maine Aids Care (Fall 1994), Maine Medical Center's Aids Consultation Service

Maine AIDS Care (1994-1996)

No abstract provided.

Search Magazine 1994, Vol.4, No.1, The Rockefeller University

Search Magazine

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A Proposal For A Federal Aids Immunization Policy, Catherine M. Polizzi

Journal of Law and Health

This paper will examine the creation of a federal AIDS compensation scheme for victims of injuries caused by vaccines which are distributed as a part of a national immunization program. As a preliminary inquiry, I will examine the impact of perceived liability on potential manufacturers to determine whether the risk of liability for manufacturers decreases the possibility that a successful AIDS vaccine will be introduced into the market. I will then discuss whether, given the present laws and economic incentives surrounding the vaccine industry, a federal compensation scheme for an AIDS vaccine is necessary. After analyzing the unique problems of …

The Relationship Between Nurses' Knowledge Of Hiv, Fear Of Aids, And Use Of Universal Precautions, Carol Jones

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

This study examined the relationship between knowledge of HIV, fear of AIDS, and use of universal precautions in registered nurses. A descriptive survey design used a battery of questionnaires, including the National League for Nursing's Caring for Persons with AIDS Test, the University of Texas Fear of AIDS Scale, and a demographic questionnaire. The random sample consisted of 109 registered nurses working at a county hospital in the southwestern United States. The Health Belief Model guided the study. Research hypotheses were: (1) There is a positive correlation between knowledge of HIV/AIDS and use of universal precautions among nurses; (2) there …

The Aids Project Newsline, Vol.6, No.1 (February 1993), Jeffrey Levensaler, The Aids Project

AIDS Project Newsline (1991-1996)

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Jails And Prisons -- Reservoirs Of Tb Disease: Should Defendants With Hiv Infection (Who Cannot Swim) Be Thrown Into The Reservoir?, Faith Colangelo, Mariana Hogan

Fordham Urban Law Journal

The resurgence of tuberculosis (TB) in urban areas has direct and alarming consequences within the criminal justice system. Lock-up facilities, jails and prisons are TB breeding grounds. TB strikes with vengeance in populations with physical vulnerabilities caused by alcoholism, drug addiction, malnutrition, and HIV/AIDS and other immune-suppressing conditions. This Essay argues that it is time for New York State to reevaluate the mandatory sentencing laws and restrictions on plea bargaining. The interaction of HIV disease and TB offers a striking example of why justice is not served by binding the judiciary's hands. This Essay provides a medical overview of HIV …

Urban Criminal Justice: Has The Response To The Hiv Epidemic Been "Fair"?, Richard J. Andrias

Fordham Urban Law Journal

The HIV epidemic is almost a decade old and it is estimated that one million to two million Americans are infected. Nevertheless, too often it has been irrational fears of contagion and disapproval of the subcultures associated with the illness that have driven society's response to the epidemic. Has the legal community, which prides itself on being governed by due process and rationality, reacted any differently than society at large? To what degree have legal decisions and policies been governed by fear, prejudice, and ignorance rather than by science and sound public policy? This Essay will explore the response of …

Comparison Of Level Of Satisfaction By Hiv-Infected Clients Who Have Received Care From Nurse Practitioners And Physicians In Outpatient Settings, Michael Hoffman

MSN Research Projects

Few studies have been done that examine the acceptance of nurse practitioners as providers of care by persons infected with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). The purpose of this study was to evaluate the level of satisfaction with care as experienced by the HIV-infected client in an outpatient setting who has received care from both nurse practitioners and physicians. The Health Belief Model (HBM) developed by Rosenstock, Hochbaum, and Kegeles in the 1950s, and specifically the concept of self-efficacy, was chosen as the conceptual framework for this study. In this descriptive study the null hypothesis examined was there will be …

Aids And The Homeless Of Boston, James J. O'Connell, Joan Lebow

New England Journal of Public Policy

Homeless persons with AIDS and HIV infection face significant health hazards during the daily struggle for survival on the streets and in the crowded shelters of our cities. This article offers a historical perspective on the evolution of the AIDS epidemic within the homeless population of Boston and examines the demographics, risk behaviors, and survival statistics of that epidemic. The Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program is presented as a model of service delivery that offers quality health care to homeless persons with AIDS while addressing the special needs of those bound by the immediacy of the next meal …

Mandatory Aids Testing, Mathew Hoch

Brigham Young University Prelaw Review

In October of 1991, Kimberly Bergalis, a weak and frail AIDS victim, made a physically taxing journey to Washington D.C. She went, despite her deteriorating condition, to testify on behalf of a proposed bill that would require health care practitioners to be tested for the HIV virus before performing any invasive procedures. Kimberly was unknowingly infected by her dentist, who had the HIV virus.

Hiv And The Need For A Voluntarist Approach, David A. Hansell, Esq.

Fordham Urban Law Journal

After a decade of fighting AIDS, the public health community has come to recognize that strategies to combat the infection must be premised on voluntarism and not on coercion. Attempts to combat AIDS with coercive public health strategies stem from a desire to force AIDS into an ill-fitting traditional disease-response framework, overlooking the differences between HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases, including the limitations in available treatment modalities for HIV. A return to such a cramped, narrowly-medicalized view of the AIDS epidemic has enormous social implications and a coercive strategy would frustrate efforts to stem the spread of the disease. …

Hey Doc, Can You Keep A Secret - An Ohio Physician's Right To Warn Third Parties That They May Be At Risk Of Contracting Hiv, Mark Wiseman

Journal of Law and Health

This note will seek to determine if granting a physician the right to warn third parties at risk is the appropriate solution to the above scenario and others like it. Part I will supply a background on the virus that causes AIDS. Part II will review possible legal justification for this breach of the confidential doctor/patient relationship. Part III discusses why there is a need to maintain strict confidentiality of AIDS-related information. Finally, Part IV will discuss alternatives to granting physicians the right to warn.

Risky Business: Setting Public Health Policy For Hiv-Infected Health Care Professionals, Leonard H. Glantz, Wendy K. Mariner, George J. Annas

Faculty Scholarship

An analysis of the restrictive proposals provoked by the case of Kimberly Bergalis and four other patients apparently infected with HIV during the course of dental treatment reveals that they resulted from an inability to evaluate appropriately the infinitesimal risk of HIV transmission from practitioner to patient. The proposals also resulted from an effort to create risk prevention policy without appreciating the distinction between regulating things or procedures, which have no human rights, and regulating people, who have rights that should not be infringed without serious justification. This analysis demonstrates that the proposed restrictive policies are not justified because they …

Testing The Hand That Bites You: Johnetta J. V. The Municipal Court: Mandatory Aids Testing, And The Fourth Amendment, Paul T. Whitcombe

Northern Illinois University Law Review

One type of response to the current AIDS crises has been to authorize mandatory testing of private individuals for HIV in certain circumstances that give rise to fear of transmission, such as a biting or spitting incident, even without reason to believe the attacker may be an AIDS carrier.

Adding Insult To Injury: The Lack Of Medically-Appropriate Housing For The Homeless Hiv-Iii, Patti E. Phillips

University of Miami Law Review

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Improving Aids Awareness Through A Staff Development Program For Teachers In An Elementary School Setting, Gladys M. Cormier

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education ETD Archive

This practicum was aimed to improve AIDS awareness through a staff development program for teachers in an elementary school setting. Two broad aims were to increase teacher knowledge regarding the transmission of AIDS and to teach them how to protect themselves and others with regards to this disease.

Twelve (12) workshops designed to develop essential skills and to impart information on the transmission and personal risk factors involved with Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome/Human Immunodeficiency virus were held during the implementation phase of this practicum. New information regarding the AIDS virus was incorporated into every workshop when information occurred. AIDS related …

Bibliography: Women, Aids, & Activism, Polly Thistlethwaite

Publications and Research

This annotated bibliography of the ACT UP/NY Women & AIDS Book Group's Women, AIDS & Activism reflects the scientific, feminist, gay, lesbian, HIV-community work that informed the book's production and ACT UP/NY's activism up to 1990. Book Group members: Marion Banzhaf, Cynthia Chris, Kim Christensen, Alexis Danzig, Risa Denenberg, Zoe Leonard, Deb Levine, Samuel Lurie, Monica Pearl, Catherine Gund, Polly Thistlethwaite, Judith Walker, and Brigitte Weil. Additional members of the original Women and AIDS Handbook Group included Jamie Bauer, Heidi Dorow, Maria Maggenti, Ellen Neipris, Ann Northrop, Sydney Pokorney, Karen Ramspacher, Maxine Wolfe, and Brian Zabcik.

The Aids Project Newsletter, Vol.2, No.3 (May 1989), David Ketchum, The Aids Project

AIDS Project Newsletter (1987-1991)

No abstract provided.