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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
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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 …
Aids And Government: A Plan Of Action, Taunya L. Banks
Aids And Government: A Plan Of Action, Taunya L. Banks
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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
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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 …