The Michigan Department of Corrections has prevented HIV-infected prisoners from working in food service positions since at least 1999. But the Michigan Department of Civil Rights argues that the policy violates non-discrimination statutes.
Many Americans think of HIV as a men’s disease — even though women comprise almost a third of HIV infections.
Doctors in Berlin, Germany, are reporting that a 42-year-old American living in that city may have eliminated HIV from his body after a bone marrow transplant.
In a series of diary entries for the Jamaica Gleaner, a young woman living with HIV relates the often neglected psychological effects of HIV infection and young motherhood.
Sixty-seven countries have some sort of travel restriction for people living with HIV or AIDS. Among these, 13 countries do not allow HIV positive people to enter their countries. The United States is one of these countries.
