State Jobs Policy Improves for People with HIV/AIDS
The AIDS Law Project of Pennsylvania has persuaded the state to revise regulations on occupational and professional licensing to protect workers and job applicants with HIV. Harnessing the support of then-Gov. Ed Rendell, the AIDS Law Project was able to get a decades-old policy statement updated in January to specifically exclude HIV as a disease…
AIDS LAW PROJECT EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AND A FORMER BOARD PRESIDENT ARE NAMED TO NATIONAL “TOP 100” LIST OF HIV/AIDS ADVOCATES
AIDS Law Project of Pennsylvania Executive Director Ronda B. Goldfein, Esq., and former AIDS Law Project board president David Acosta were both named to the 2010 list of the POZ 100, recognizing the top HIV/AIDS activists in the country. POZ is a magazine and website for people living with and affected by HIV/AIDS. The POZ…
AIDS Law Project of Pennsylvania Wins Case for Client Who Was Wrongfully Thrown Out of Personal Care Home Because She Has HIV.
Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission orders more than $63,000 in compensatory damages and civil penalties to woman illegally denied a place to live because she has HIV. Read our press release Read the opinion
Financial Services Company Ordered to Pay Retirement Money to Longtime Partner Instead of Ex-Wife
The AIDS Law Project of Pennsylvania announces a victory in a case involving TIAA-CREF, a financial services company, which had awarded a deceased gay man’s retirement benefits to his ex-wife rather than his longtime partner who was named as his beneficiary. On May 27, 2010, in connection with that victory, the parties agreed to settle…