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Health Care & Hospital Law

Dec. 2, 2011

Fighting HIV discrimination: Perhaps combination therapy is the key

A survey reveals that more dentists treat HIV-positive patients than health care providers - why? By Brad Sears of UCLA School of Law


When it was first identified 30 years ago, HIV created two great epidemics: one medical and one of widespread fear and discrimination. Fifteen years later, the effective combination therapies to combat HIV became widely available. For those who have access to them, these therapies have turned HIV-disease into a manageable chronic condition. However, HIV discrimination has proven more intractable.


This is particularly true in health care. In a series of studies u...

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