CARY — A man has been charged with trying to give a police officer HIV by biting the cop on the leg, according to a local newspaper. From the Northwest Herald: A Cary man is due in court Dec. 14 on allegations that he tried to give a police officer HIV by biting him in the leg.…
GRAND RAPIDS – Lambda Legal and Michigan Protection & Advocacy Service (MPAS) on Wednesday announced the successful settlement of a 2015 lawsuit filed on behalf of John Dorn against the Michigan Department of Corrections (MDOC). The lawsuit was filed after Dorn was disciplined far more severely than another incarcerated man based solely on his HIV…
SCHAUMBURG — A Naperville man this week sued his former Schaumburg-based recuiter and Elgin-based employer for revealing his HIV status and later firing him. From the Daily Herald of Arlington Heights: A 34-year-old Naperville man identified in court records as John Doe seeks damages from Medela of Elgin and the owner of Gotham Professional Services…
SAN FRANCISCO – The Superior Court of California (San Francisco) on Monday denied A.J. Boggs & Company’s motion to dismiss a class action lawsuit Lambda Legal filed on behalf of a California man living with HIV and 92 others whose confidential medical records – including their HIV status – were compromised by a data breach…
By Matt Simonette SPRINGFIELD — Jeffery Erdman and Michael Maginn, both officials with the Illinois Public Health Association (IPHA), are working hard to make sure that providers, advocates and community members across the entirety of Illinois know about PrEP resources. Erdman, IPHA’s assistant director for programs and compliance, said that the PrEP intervention had been…
WASHINGTON — A small group of people living with HIV sensitive to two potent anti-HIV broadly neutralizing antibodies (link is external) (bNAbs) — 3BNC117 and 10-1074 — tolerated multiple infusions of the antibodies and suppressed HIV for more than 15 weeks after stopping antiretroviral therapy (ART). The new findings, from a pilot clinical trial supported…
AMSTERDAM — For the first time, a U.S.-based doctors group has endorsed event-based PrEP use. AIDSMap.com reported that the International Antiviral Society-USA (IAS-USA) made the recommendation during the International AIDS Conference in Amsterdam last month. In this case, event-based means PrEP is given on demand instead of a regular daily dose. According to AIDSMap, IAS-USA…
PEORIA — Central Illinois Friends (CIF) held one of their Dinner with Friends tours in Peoria this week. So far, according to Deric Tucker Kimler of Central Illinois Friends, 130 people showing up for the restaurant visits, with up to 75 people attending at a single location. At the halfway point, after four host-your-own events and eight…
ALEXANDRIA, Va. – On Friday, a Virginia federal court ruled a case challenging the military’s discriminatory policies governing service members living with HIV will continue by denying the government’s motion to dismiss. The suit was filed by Lambda Legal and OutServe-SLDN, along with pro bono counsel from Winston & Strawn LLP. The plaintiffs’ motion to…
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — The 2014 HIV outbreak in Scott County, Ind., could have been avoided with a quicker public health response, according to a new study published in The Lancet today. The study reported that the state government responded to the outbreak after new HIV infections had already peaked in the rural county. “Initiation…
