Special Report: AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) in America

• NCJ Number: 107891
• Journal: Human Rights Volume: 14 Issue: 3 Dated: (Summer 1987) Pages: 16-52
• Author(s): A R Rubenfeld; V Quade; M L Closen; S M Connor; H L Kaufman; M E Wojcik; E Harrington; G R Lucey; G B Georgi
• Date Published: 1987
• Length: 37 pages
• Publication Format: Article
• Publication Type: Issue Overview
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

Seven articles discuss legal and policy issues related to AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome) in the courts, the workplace (hospital), among minorities, and in testing.

Abstract

One article argues for the streamlining of case processing and AIDS education for court personnel to ensure the speedy, sensitive, and unbiased processing of AIDS-related cases in the courts, while another describes the American Bar Association's Judicial Education Project, which is designed to educate judges about AIDS and address issues in courts' dealing with AIDS patients. An interview with a homosexual attorney with AIDS covers his views of himself and his situation and how society and the courts are dealing with the AIDS crisis. A review looks at the constitutional protections available to persons with AIDS as well as employment protections under the 1973 Federal Rehabilitation Act. Other articles cover the methodology, reliability, and use of the AIDS antibody test, the prevalence and response to AIDS among blacks and Hispanics, and issues in a hospital's providing AIDS-related safety and privacy for employees and patients. For individual articles, see NCJ 107892-96.