CHLP publishes a diverse range of materials from fact sheets and advocacy documents to legal briefs, guides, and reports.
This letter, authored by CHLP and joined by seventeen other organizations, opposes a proposed AMA resolution calling for mandatory testing of pregnant women (Resolution 517).
To avoid a court battle, or to win a case once in court, people with HIV may need to introduce evidence or affidavits demonstrating that they pose no significant risk of transmitting HIV to others through casual contact.
One in a series of primers on various legal issues as they pertain to people living with HIV/AIDS, this primer on housing law provides guidance on the laws protecting people with HIV from housing discrimination and ensuring their ability to find safe and stable housing.
This chart summarizes the guidelines and policies currently in place regarding HIV-positive health care workers (HCW) in all 50 states, as well as some U.S. territories.
On the advent of World AIDS Day, The Center for HIV Law and Policy (CHLP) emphasized that rights violations that impede the response to the AIDS epidemic globally are also a critical problem in the United States, stating that the United States' response to AIDS should be a model of comm
In response to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) push for expanded rapid testing with decreased attention on counseling and informed consent, a group of HIV legal, medical, and service organizations endorsed these fundamental principles to guide the implementation of expanded
The Center for HIV Law and Policys (CHLP) legal and policy outline for advocating for sexual health and HIV prevention programming for youth in state custody.
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 newborns, and an overview of the law on the rights of mothers concerning perinatal treatment decisions and treatment choices for their
These comments were drafted by CHLP on behalf of several HIV legal and service organizations in response to a proposal by the FDA to revise condom package labeling guidelines to include misleading information on condom shortcomings as a disease prevention method.
This slide presentation for the Nov 29-30, 2006 Summit on Opportunities for Improving HIV Diagnosis, Prevention, & Access to Care in the U.S.
This document contains comments on proposed changes to the New Jersey Administrative Code regarding New Jersey's "Manual of Requirements," which outlines the requirements for foster homes, also called "resource families." The comments are limited to the provisions that implicate the rights of you
Recent proposals to change HIV counseling and testing protocols rest on claims that current laws incorporating informed, written consent are interfering with the testing and treatment that would eliminate racial disparities, and so need to be "modernized." But available evidence strongly indicat
