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F.D.A. Approves Monthly Shots to Treat H.I.V.

Apoorva Mandavilli
The New York Times

It’s what many people with H.I.V. have long awaited: monthly injections to keep the virus in check, instead of the three drugs daily they now must…

Some Big Health Care Policy Changes Are Hiding In The Federal Spending Package

NPR Staff
NPR

Congress is set to pass a $1.4 trillion spending package this week, which President Trump has said he'll sign. The legislation includes policy changes and funding increases that public health…

Government To Provide PrEP To Uninsured Americans To Further Its Goal Of Eradicating HIV Epidemic

Kaiser Health News

KHN Morning Briefing: Summaries of health policy coverage from major news organizations Some American cities with high HIV rates already have programs that pay the costs of PrEP for the…

Who Owns H.I.V.-Prevention Drugs? The Taxpayers, U.S. Says: In an unexpected lawsuit, federal officials claim that Gilead Sciences willfully disregarded government patents on medicines necessary to end the AIDS epidemic.

Donald G. McNeil Jr. and Apoorva Mandavilli
New York Times

After years of prodding by patient advocates, federal officials on Wednesday sued the drug maker Gilead Sciences, charging that it had infringed government patents on the idea of preventing H…

California To Make HIV Prevention Drugs Available Without A Prescription

Laurel Wamsley
NPR

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill on Monday that will make HIV-prevention drugs available without a prescription. It allows pharmacists to dispense both PrEP, or preexposure prophylaxis, and PEP,…

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15+ Years of PEPFAR: How U.S. Action on HIV/AIDS Has Changed Global Health

October 7, 2019
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Couldn't join us for the event? Check out some of the speakers' slide presentations and blog posts! Description In May 2003, the U.S. Congress passed bipartisan legislation authorizing a…

The AIDS Crisis is Not Over, Radical History Review

Deadline: September 01, 2019
Radical History Review

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From the description: This issue of the Radical History Review will examine the politics of the HIV/AIDS pandemic. While it has been almost forty years since doctors…

Why Donald Trump needs Obamacare

Tami Luhby, quoting Rachel Sachs (Academic Fellow Alumna)
CNN

From the article: President Donald Trump wants to kill Obamacare, but it will be a lot harder for him to fulfill his own health care promises without the landmark health…

Health Law Workshop: Craig Konnoth

November 26, 2018

Presentation Download the Presentation: "Medical Civil Rights" About the Presenter Craig Konnoth is Associate Professor of Law at Colorado Law. His work lies at the intersection of health law and…

HIV Criminalization: Creating a Viral Underclass in the Law

March 1, 2018
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Description HLS Lambda hosted this lecture on HIV stigma, criminalization, and activism. Sean Strub is a longtime HIV survivor, founder of POZ magazine, director of the Sero Project, and an…

Punishing Disease: HIV and the Criminalization of Sickness

January 29, 2018
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Couldn't join us for the event? Check out the video of the event here! Please join us for a talk with Trevor Hoppe on his book, Punishing Disease: HIV…

Health Law Workshop: Elizabeth Weeks Leonard

November 21, 2016

Presentation Download the presentation materials: "Healthism: Health Status Discrimination and the Law" Jessica L. Roberts and Elizabeth Weeks Leonard, "Healthism: Health Status Discrimination and the Law" book proposal Jessica L.…

The Limits to Consumerism in Health Care: A Lecture by Mary Anne Bobinski

March 2, 2016
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Couldn't attend the event? Check out some of our speakers' slide presentations! Description It is often said that health care has moved from paternalism, in the form of &ldquo…

Blood Illuminated: Panel Discussion of FDA Blood Ban From Gay and Bisexual Men

I. Glenn Cohen (Faculty Director)
YouTube Video of Event at Katzen Arts Center, American University

From a description of the event on Out Magazine: Dating back to a policy enacted during the height of the AIDS crisis, for three decades men who have sex with…

2015 Annual Conference: Law, Religion, and Health in America

May 8 - 9, 2015
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Join the conversation on Twitter! @PetrieFlom #lawreligionhealth And check out many of the speakers' slide presentations below! Conference Description Religion and medicine have historically gone hand in hand, but increasingly…

Identified Versus Statistical Lives - Book talk and discussion

Featuring co-editors I. Glenn Cohen (Faculty Director), Nir Eyal, and Norman Daniels
Harvard Chan School of Public Health, Building 1, room 1208

The essays in Identified versus Statistical Lives: An Interdisciplinary Approach address the identified lives effect, namely, the greater human proclivity to assist persons and groups identified as at high risk…

Book Launch: Identified versus Statistical Lives: An Interdisciplinary Approach

March 11, 2015

Identified versus Statistical Lives: An Interdisciplinary Approach is an edited volume that grew out of the 2012 conference "Identified versus Statistical Lives: Ethics and Public Policy," cosponsored by the Petrie-Flom Center,…

F.D.A. Easing Ban on Gays, to Let Some Give Blood

Sabrina Tavernise, quoting I. Glenn Cohen (Faculty Director)
New York Times

[...] “This is a major victory for gay civil rights,” said I. Glenn Cohen, a law professor at Harvard who specializes in bioethics and health. “We’re…

FDA Announces Plans to End Lifetime Ban on Gay Men Donating Blood

Colleen Curry, quoting I. Glenn Cohen (Faculty Director)
Vice News

[...] Harvard Law School bioethics and the law professor I. Glenn Cohen told VICE News that while he thought the FDA's proposed policy change is a good first step, it…

US lifts ban on gay men donating blood — as long as they don’t have sex with other men

Sarah Kliff and Julia Belluz, quoting I. Glenn Cohen (Faculty Director)
Vox

[...] Glenn Cohen, a Harvard Law professor who wrote about the blood donor rule in JAMA: the Journal of the American Medical Association, sees a one-year deferral as an interim step,…

FDA Advisors Not Sold on Lifting Ban on Gay Men Giving Blood

Dennis Thomson, quoting I. Glenn Cohen (Faculty Director)
Philly.com

[...] The FDA first adopted the policy at the dawn of the AIDS crisis. However, changing times and technological advances have rendered the decades-old ban obsolete, according to Glenn Cohen, who…

Decades-old ban on blood donations from gay men to be revisited

Andrea Mitchell interviewing I. Glenn Cohen (Faculty Director)
MSNBC

Petrie-Flom Faculty Director I. Glenn Cohen, who co-wrote the argument against the ban on gay male blood donation in the Journal of the American Medical Association, joins NBC's Andrea…

Will FDA Lift Gay Blood Donor Ban?

Quoting I. Glenn Cohen (Faculty Director)
NewsMax Health

[...] "They really are out of step with the rest of the world," Glenn Cohen, a Harvard Law School professor, told the Post. In a recent article in the Journal of…

US FDA to Consider Lifting Ban on Gay Men Donating Blood: FDA expected to reduce ban on gay men being blood donors

Hannah Osborne, quoting I. Glenn Cohen (Faculty Director)
International Business Times

[...] Speaking of the forthcoming discussion, Glenn Cohen, a medical ethics professor at Harvard Law School, said: "It's a little crazy that you can shed blood for your country, but…

FDA weighs lifting ban on blood donations from gay men

Sarah Ferris, quoting I. Glenn Cohen (Faculty Director)
The Hill

[...] “The public health rationale for this ban has kind of been packed away,” said Glenn Cohen, a medical ethics professor at Harvard Law School who criticized the ban…

Reconsideration of the Lifetime Ban on Blood Donation by Men Who Have Sex With Men

I. Glenn Cohen, JD (Faculty Director); Jeremy Feigenbaum, JD; Eli Y. Adashi, MD, MS
JAMA

Faculty Director I. Glenn Cohen has co-authored a new Viewpoint piece in the July 23/30, 2014 issue of JAMA, arguing for the end of the FDA's lifetime ban on blood donation…

JAMA opinion piece calls for ending lifetime ban on blood donation by gay men: Hemophilia groups say policy must be based on science, not politics

Cheryl Wetzstein, citing I. Glenn Cohen (Faculty Director)
Washington Times

Gay marriage laws and court rulings against sexual-orientation discrimination are all signs that it’s time for the federal government to change its blood-donor policy for gay and bisexual…

Dallas Buyers Club: Free Film Screening and Panel Discussion

April 16, 2014

Students from across Harvard were invited to view a free screening of the Academy-award winning film Dallas Buyers Club and participated in a panel discussion about issues addressed in the…

Bioethical Reflections in Honor of Dan Brock

November 22, 2013

The Conference honors Dan Brock and his contributions to bioethics. Brock has been one of the most influential figures in American bioethics. Prior to his arrival at Harvard, Dr. Brock…

Film Screening: deepsouth

April 8, 2013

'deepsouth' is a documentary about the rural American South, and the people who inhabit its most quiet corners. Beneath layers of history, poverty and now soaring HIV infections, four Americans…

Health Law, HIV/AIDS Policy and Disability Rights in the New Administration

2009-2010

Jeff Crowley, the White House Director of National AIDS Policy and Senior Advisor on Disability Policy, visited Harvard Law School to speak about the Obama Administration’s agendas for…