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The Center for HIV Law and Policy's Resource Bank—the first and only of its kind—is a comprehensive database of quality memoranda, research, reports, legal guides, court and agency decisions, pleadings and briefs, policy analyses and recommendations, and other materials on topics of importance to people living with HIV and their advocates. The Resource Bank provides free, unlimited access to these substantive resources to support and increase the advocacy power and expertise of attorneys, community members, and service providers, as well as all people living with HIV.

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Found 46 documents
Compilations of Laws and Cases
Document Type: Compilations of Laws and Cases  
Date: 2009-January  
Summary: This guide provides state-by-state information on statutes, regulations, and policies related to HIV testing. For each state, the information is broken out into the ...
 
 
Court and Agency Decisions and Orders
Document Type: Court and Agency Decisions and Orders  
Date: 2001  
Summary: This opinion concerns a summary judgment motion on a Rehabilitation Act claim against a doctor who refused to treat an HIV-positive pregnant woman and instead referred her ...
 
Document Type: Court and Agency Decisions and Orders  
Date: 2005-August-3  
Summary: This opinion holds that an HIV-positive mother's refusal during pregnancy to take antiretroviral medication (ARVs) to reduce the risk of transferring HIV to her fetus ...
 
 
International Commitments and United Nations Documents
Document Type: International Commitments and United Nations Documents  
Date: 2003-January  
Summary: General Comment No. 3 was issued by the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child to promote the realization of the human rights of children in the context of ...
 
Document Type: International Commitments and United Nations Documents  
Date: 1989-November-20  
Summary: The Convention on the Rights of the Child (“CRC”) is an international treaty that discusses many of the rights children, some of which are in addition to those ...
 
Document Type: International Commitments and United Nations Documents  
Date: 2006-June-16  
Summary: The Political Declaration, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in June 2006, renews the General Assembly’s commitment to the Declaration of Commitment on ...
 
Document Type: International Commitments and United Nations Documents  
Date: 1981-September-3  
Summary: The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), addresses women’s rights within the political, social, economic, cultural, ...
 
 
Legal Guides
Document Type: Legal Guides  
Date: 2004  
Summary: This document summarizes the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) and describes the status of CEDAW in the United States, and ...
 
Document Type: Legal Guides  
Date: 2010-January  
Summary: Women who are HIV-positive and pregnant or considering becoming pregnant often face judgment and discrimination from the very medical care providers they rely upon to keep ...
 
Document Type: Legal Guides  
Date: 2010-March  
Summary: This brief handout provides a succinct guide to using the human rights framework in U.S. advocacy for HIV-positive women's reproductive rights. It describes different ...
 
 
Letters and Other Advocacy Documents
Document Type: Letters and Other Advocacy Documents  
Date: 1999  
Summary: This compilation of personal stories interspersed with factual information regarding various aspects of women's experience with HIV/AIDS aims to help HIV-positive women ...
 
Document Type: Letters and Other Advocacy Documents  
Date: 2007  
Summary: (The following summary is excerpted from the article's abstract): In the article the author analyzes the current ability to identify the predictors of mother-to-child ...
 
Document Type: Letters and Other Advocacy Documents  
Date: 2009-June  
Summary: This letter, authored by CHLP and joined by seventeen other organizations, opposes a proposed AMA resolution calling for mandatory testing of pregnant women (Resolution ...
 
Document Type: Letters and Other Advocacy Documents  
Date: 2008  
Summary: This fact sheet provides brief arguments making the link between women's empowerment and positive health outcomes for women and newborns. It identifies specific legal, ...
 
 
Model and Sample Legislation
Document Type: Model and Sample Legislation  
Date: 2007-August-27  
Summary: This bill, subsequently passed by the Senate and signed by the Governor on September 11, 2007, allows HIV-positive men to have their sperm washed and used for fertility ...
 
 
Pleadings and Briefs
Document Type: Pleadings and Briefs  
Date: 2002-December  
Summary: This complaint was filed on behalf of a woman who was tested for HIV during her pregnancy without her consent, followed by the unauthorized disclosure of her positive HIV ...
 
Document Type: Pleadings and Briefs  
Date: 2009-June  
Summary: In this brief, the Center for HIV Law and Policy, National Advocates for Pregnant women, and other amici argue that a federal judge in the District of Maine improperly ...
 
 
Press--Releases, Articles, etc.
Document Type: Press--Releases, Articles, etc.  
Date: 2009-July-09  
Summary: The Center for HIV Law and Policy (CHLP), along with thirteen organizations working to advance the health and rights of women living with HIV in the United States, sent a ...
 
 
Research and Journal Articles
Document Type: Research and Journal Articles  
Date: 2010-June-17  
Summary: This study reports strong evidence of the effectiveness of HIV antiretroviral therapy in substantially reducing the risk of HIV transmission from mother to child when ...
 
Document Type: Research and Journal Articles  
Date: 2007  
Summary: (The following summary is excerpted from the article's abstract): This research is about the Special Program of Assisted Reproduction (SPAR), which started in 1994 as a ...
 
Document Type: Research and Journal Articles  
Date: 2006-June-01  
Summary: This statement outlines the differences between Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) HIV screening ...
 
Document Type: Research and Journal Articles  
Date: 2007  
Summary: (The following summary is excerpted from the article's abstract): Before the availability of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART), there was no clear effect of ...
 
Document Type: Research and Journal Articles  
Date: 2007-September  
Summary: (The following summary is excerpted from the article's abstract): The objective of the study was to evaluate the feasibility, acceptability, and accuracy of rapid human ...
 
Document Type: Research and Journal Articles  
Date: 2007  
Summary: (The following summary is excerpted from the article's abstract): This research examined the safety and effectiveness of assisted reproduction using sperm washing for ...
 
 
Statutes, Regulations, and Agency Guidelines
Document Type: Statutes, Regulations, and Agency Guidelines  
Date: 2000-May-31  
Summary: These are the implementing regulations that followed NY's passage, in 1997, of universal, mandatory testing of newborns. The regulations require that hospitals and ...
 
Document Type: Statutes, Regulations, and Agency Guidelines  
Date: 2008-July-08  
Summary: The July 2008 version of the guidelines includes language that reaffirms an HIV-positive pregnant woman’s right to retain control over treatment decisions that ...
 
 
Training Materials, Slides, Pamphlets
Document Type: Training Materials, Slides, Pamphlets  
Date: 2008  
Summary: This handout discusses current issues around the world affecting the rights of HIV-positive women considering childbirth and abortion and calls for research and laws ...
 
Document Type: Training Materials, Slides, Pamphlets  
Date: 2007-May-24  
Summary: With a focus on NY law, this powerpoint presentation is designed to provide a basic understanding of NY law as of 2006 regarding HIV testing of pregnant women and ...
 
Document Type: Training Materials, Slides, Pamphlets  
Date: 2008  
Summary: This handout discusses reproductive health issues facing women living with HIV around the world. It argues that human rights and public health require women have control ...
 
 
White Papers and Reports
Document Type: White Papers and Reports  
Date: 2007  
Summary: This document presents examples of innovative approaches for engaging men and boys in changing gender-based health inequity and summarizes the evidence on the ...
 
Document Type: White Papers and Reports  
Date: 2009-January  
Summary: The guide focuses on providing women with the information that they need regarding HIV treatment and care if they are considering pregnancy or are currently ...
 
Document Type: White Papers and Reports  
Date: 2009-December  
Summary: This report and guide outlines the medical and legal issues surrounding HIV and pregnancy in the United States. It makes it clear that persistent beliefs among medical, ...
 
Document Type: White Papers and Reports  
Date: 2004  
Summary: Because many women do not access health services outside of pregnancy, maternal health services provide an excellent resource for HIV interventions tailored to the needs ...
 
Document Type: White Papers and Reports  
Date: 2009  
Summary: In an effort to influence the national debate regarding the testing of pregnant women and newborns for HIV, the HIV Law Project drafted this report to explain why the ...
 
Document Type: White Papers and Reports  
Date: 2006  
Summary: Guttmacher Institute outlines the changing sexual and reproductive health needs of people living with HIV as the disease has become a manageable chronic disease. Included ...
 
Document Type: White Papers and Reports  
Date: 2009  
Summary: This is a guide focused on healthcare program managers, addressing gender issues in HIV testing and counseling, prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT), ...
 
Document Type: White Papers and Reports  
Date: 2004-February-17  
Summary: This guide aims to provide sexual and reproductive health program planners, managers, and providers with the information necessary to integrate voluntary counseling and ...
 
Document Type: White Papers and Reports  
Date: 2004  
Summary: The International Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS (ICW) describes and advocates for a human rights approach to dealing with the HIV/AIDS epidemic. The Paper ...
 
Document Type: White Papers and Reports  
Date: 2007  
Summary: The International Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS (ICW) reports on the results of its project Silent Voices, a program devoted to gathering the stories of ...
 
Document Type: White Papers and Reports  
Date: 2004  
Summary: This policy vision paper outlines the key priorities for women with HIV as identified by a group of young HIV positive women from across Eastern and Southern Africa who ...
 
Document Type: White Papers and Reports  
Date: 2004  
Summary: HIV-positive women need access not only to appropriate health care and antiretroviral medications, but also to HIV treatment support. This paper discusses the unique ...
 
Document Type: White Papers and Reports  
Date: 2009-May  
Summary: This report, published by the International Treatment Preparedness Coalition (ITPC), investigates why the world is missing its target, set back in 2001, to reduce ...
 
Document Type: White Papers and Reports  
Date: 2007  
Summary: (The following summary is excerpted from the article's abstract): The advent of potent antiretroviral therapy coupled with the dramatic reduction in mother-to-child ...
 
Document Type: White Papers and Reports  
Date: 2005-August-01  
Summary: Language from the document itself, created by the Center for Reproductive Rights, explains that, "this briefing paper addresses the fundamental human rights standards ...
 
Document Type: White Papers and Reports  
Date: 2007  
Summary: (The following summary is excerpted from the article's abstract): This paper reviews the literature on the fertility-related needs of women and men living with HIV ...
 
Document Type: White Papers and Reports  
Date: 2006-March-01  
Summary: This report summarizes discussion from two international electronic fora in which advocates, service providers, and HIV-positive women discussed services and policies ...