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HIV/AIDS legal

  • American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) HIV/AIDS
    The ACLU's mission is "to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to all people in [the] country by the Constitution and laws of the United States."
  • Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990 - Information
    This Act identifies HIV as a disability. The purpose of this Act is "to provide a clear and comprehensive national mandate for the elimination of discrimination against individuals with disabilities; [and] to provide clear, strong, consistent, enforceable standards addressing discrimination against individuals with disabilities."
  • The Body: Legal Issues
  • The Body is a multimedia AIDS and HIV information resource. Their page on Legal Issues in the United States is a large collection of articles dealing with many legal issues
  • The Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network
    Based in Montreal, the Network is the only national, community-based, charitable organization in Canada working in the area of policy and legal issues raised by HIV/AIDS. It was formed in November 1992 with the mandate to advance education and knowledge about legal, ethical, and policy issues raised by HIV/AIDS, and to promote responses to HIV infection and AIDS that respect human rights.
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