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Breach of HIV Confidentiality: Overview of Emotional Distress Awards |
The goal of the
memo was to survey emotional distress awards in all types of
confidentiality case and in other comparable areas. The bulk of the
research focused on New York State cases, but we also surveyed some
types of cases in other states. |
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Health Care in New York State Prisons |
“Because the
dangers of abuse inherent in the penitentiary are always present,
the work of the Correctional Association—an organization of
knowledgeable experts unaffected by political forces—is so
important” |
435 kb pdf |
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HIV and AIDS Related Information-New York |
Listing of statues concerning HIV/AIDS for the State of New York |
105 kb pdf |
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HIV/AIDS Testing, Reporting
and Confidentiality of HIV-Related Information New York State |
"Confidential HIV-related information" means any
information, in the possession of a person who provides health or
social services or who obtains the information pursuant to a release
of confidential HIV-related information, concerning whether an
individual has been the subject of an HIV-related test, or has HIV
infection, HIV-related illness or AIDS, or information which
identifies or reasonably could identify an individual as having one
or more of such conditions, including information pertaining to such
individual's contacts. |
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More
than fifteen years after OSHA's bloodborne pathogens
standard was issued to protect workers against
contracting bloodborne diseases like AIDS and hepatitis
B and C, some employers
still haven't gotten the idea. United Federation of
Teachers President Randi Weingarten accused the [New
York City] Department of Education on Nov. 15 of
ignoring federal law requiring it to protect educators
at risk of exposure to life-threatening pathogens in
blood or bodily fluid |
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Passing the
Test: New York's Newborn |
This
appendix traces the evolution of policy in New York State regarding
the screening of newborns for HIV antibodies, from the introduction
of the blinded newborn seroprevalence survey in November 1987
through the implementation of the mandatory newborn testing and
notification begun in February 1997. |
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Protestors in Harlem want the state to
provide better services for inmates with HIV and hepatitis C |
Members of ACT-UP, the New York AIDS Housing Network and the Parolee
Human Rights Project turned out in front of the New York State
Building on 125th Street in Harlem Friday, April 30, to protest the
lack of HIV and Hepatitis C treatment for inmates in state prisons. |
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Providers' Refusal to Be Tested for Hepatitis C Stymies New York
Probe |
The refusal of some health care
providers to be tested for hepatitis C after a man was stricken with
the virus shortly after undergoing heart surgery at New York's St.
Francis Hospital has stymied state investigators seeking to trace
the source of his infection. |
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Senator: Bills Give Inaccurate Picture of HIV Transmission
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Provides that New York City parking
control specialists, limousine commission inspectors, campus police
officers and some other employees should be entitled to receive 75
percent disability pensions if they contract HIV. The measure
stipulates that it should be presumed that the workers' HIV
infection was contracted on the job unless it can be proven
otherwise. The second bill, sponsored by Sen. Mary Lou Rath (R- Erie
County), provides the same protections for paramedics in the town of
Tonawanda. And both bills include presumptions that if workers get
TB or hepatitis, those illnesses were contracted on the job as well.
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