HIV/AIDS Research Guide - Web Sites

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."
• HIV and Civil Rights: A Report from the Frontlines of the HIV/AIDS Epidemic (November 2003)
• 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.
• • Reseau juridique canadien VIH/SIDA
  • Canadian HIV/AIDS Policy & Law Review