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HIV/AIDS Committee

Overview

This is no longer an active committee of the New York City Bar Association. Please see the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Rights Committee for the City Bar's latest work in this area.
Chairs
- Albert R. Chen
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Reports
- Report on Legislation Regarding the Possession and Use of Hypodermic Syringes and Needles (June 09, 2021) PDF
  
  Author(s): Drugs & the Law Committee HIV/AIDS Committee
  
  Subject Area(s):
- Report on Proposed Rules from the NYS Department of Health regarding the Expansion of Minor Consent for HIV Treatment Access Prevention (February 03, 2017) PDF
  
  Author(s): HIV/AIDS Committee Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Rights Committee
  
  Subject Area(s):
- Letter to Mayor de Blasio regarding recommendations for comprehensive sexual health education (March 17, 2015) PDF
  
  Author(s): HIV/AIDS Committee Sex & Law Committee
  
  Subject Area(s):
- Letter to Mayor de Blasio Regarding Policy Recommendations Concerning AIDS (February 01, 2014) PDF
  
  Author(s): HIV/AIDS Committee
  
  Subject Area(s):
- Report on A.2736/S.1379 which would prohibit police and prosecutors from introducing condoms as evidence of prostitution-related offenses in criminal proceedings (April 2013) (April 01, 2013) PDF
  
  Author(s): HIV/AIDS Committee
  
  Subject Area(s):
- Letter to the NYC Council commenting on recent policy changes in the HIV/AIDS Services Administration (HASA) division of the Human Rights Administration (June 2012) (June 01, 2012) PDF
  
  Author(s): HIV/AIDS Committee
  
  Subject Area(s):
- Letter to Congress on the Ending Federal Funding Ban for Syringe Exchange Programs (June 2012) (June 01, 2012) PDF
  
  Author(s): HIV/AIDS Committee Drugs & the Law Committee
  
  Subject Area(s):
- Letter to the United Nations Global Commission on HIV and the Law on how laws and law enforcement can facilitate or substantially change the trajectory of the HIV epidemic (October 2011) (November 01, 2011) PDF
  
  Author(s): HIV/AIDS Committee
  
  Subject Area(s):
- Letter to the HRSA noting that the narrow definition of legal services funded by the Ryan White CARE Act is depriving persons living with HIV/AIDS of crucial support services (December 2010) (December 01, 2010) PDF
  
  Author(s): HIV/AIDS Committee Social Welfare Law Committee
  
  Subject Area(s):
- Report on A.2565/S.2664 which would cap the percentage of income payable towards shelter costs by a person with HIV or AIDS (May 01, 2010) PDF
  
  Author(s): HIV/AIDS Committee Social Welfare Law Committee
  
  Subject Area(s):
- Letter to Congress regarding the federal funding ban for syringe exchange programs (December 2009) (December 01, 2009) PDF
  
  Author(s): HIV/AIDS Committee Drugs & the Law Committee
  
  Subject Area(s):
- Report on A.8396/S.5620 which would de-criminalize possession of a hypodermic syringe or needle that is lawfully possessed under New York's public health laws but contains a residual amount of a controlled substance (Reissued March 2010) (December 01, 2009) PDF
  
  Author(s): HIV/AIDS Committee Drugs & the Law Committee
  
  Subject Area(s):
- Letter to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission commenting on the Commission's Proposed Rulemaking to revise its Americans with Disabilities Act ("ADA") regulations and interpretive guidance - RIN 3046-AA85 (December 01, 2009) PDF
  
  Author(s): HIV/AIDS Committee Civil Rights Committee Disability Law Committee Labor & Employment Committee
  
  Subject Area(s):
- Letter to the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention, US Department of Health and Human Services regarding the proposed removal of HIV from the list of "communicable diseases of public health significance" (August 2009) (September 01, 2009) PDF
  
  Author(s): HIV/AIDS Committee
  
  Subject Area(s):
- Letter to Congress regarding the HIV Nondiscrimination in Travel and Immigration Act of 2007 - S.2486 (July 01, 2008) PDF
  
  Author(s): HIV/AIDS Committee
  
  Subject Area(s):
- Letter to Governor Spitzer urging his administration to consider a number of issues that are of major concern to New Yorkers living with HIV/AIDS (January 01, 2007) PDF
  
  Author(s): HIV/AIDS Committee
  
  Subject Area(s):
- Letter to the NYS Department of Health urging the Department to reconsider 10 NYRR Section 52-3.4(a)(8) and 52-8.5 which prohibit any man who has had oral or anal sex with another man in the preceding five years from anonymously donating sperm (December 01, 2005) PDF
  
  Author(s): HIV/AIDS Committee
  
  Subject Area(s):
- Memorandum in support of A.4204/S.1840 and A.3692 which would direct the Department of Health to perform annual reviews of the Department of Correctional Services' policies and practices regarding human immunodeficiency virus ("HIV" and hepatitis C virus ("HCV" care and prevention and would amend the definition of "Hospital" in Article 28 of the Public Health Law to include correctional health facilities (March 01, 2004) PDF
  
  Author(s): HIV/AIDS Committee
  
  Subject Area(s):
- A3940/S2082 A Bill to Mandate the Department of Correctional Services Implement Programs to Prevent the Transmission of HIV and STDs in State Correctional Institutions (March 01, 2004) PDF
  
  Author(s): HIV/AIDS Committee
  
  Subject Area(s):

HIV/AIDS Committee

This is no longer an active committee of the New York City Bar Association. Please see the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Rights Committee for the City Bar's latest work in this area.

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