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Being HIV-positive will no longer automatically disqualify police candidates in Tennessee city

Mar. 27, 2024 14:24 PM EDT

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Having HIV will no longer automatically disqualify someone from serving as a Metropolitan Nashville Police Officer, the Tennessee city agreed in a legal settlement on Friday. The agreement settles a federal discrimination lawsuit filed last year by a former...

Editorial Roundup: Tennessee

Feb. 29, 2024 07:27 AM EST

Kingsport Times News. February 23, 2024. Editorial: Tennessee falling behind on road projects Some states issue bonds to fund highway projects, but Tennessee isn’t among them. Tennessee hasn’t borrowed money for roadwork for 45 years, and while its pay-as-you-go...

HIV/AIDS activist Hydeia Broadbent, known for her inspirational talks as a young child, dies at 39

Feb. 22, 2024 21:00 PM EST

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Hydeia Broadbent, the HIV/AIDS activist who came to national prominence in the 1990s as a young child for her inspirational talks to reduce the stigma surrounding the virus she was born with, has died. She was 39. Broadbent's father announced on Facebook that she...

US Justice Department sues over Tennessee law targeting HIV-positive people convicted of sex work

Feb. 15, 2024 14:59 PM EST

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department on Thursday sued the state of Tennessee over its decades-old felony aggravated prostitution law, arguing that it illegally imposes tougher criminal penalties on people who are HIV positive. The lawsuit, filed in western Tennessee,...

Anthony Fauci will reflect on his long government career in 'On Call,' to be published in June

Feb. 08, 2024 05:46 AM EST

NEW YORK (AP) — Dr. Anthony Fauci has a memoir coming out in June, a look back at his long career as an infectious disease expert and the many outbreaks he contended with, from HIV/AIDS to the COVID-19 pandemic that made him famous. Viking announced Thursday that Fauci's “On...

Bill would revise Tennessee's decades-old law targeting HIV-positive people convicted of sex work

Jan. 23, 2024 17:55 PM EST

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee would no longer be the only U.S. state to impose a lifetime registration as a “violent sex offender” on anyone convicted of engaging in sex work while living with HIV under a proposal that advanced Tuesday in the legislature. The controversial...

European human rights court condemns Greece for naming HIV-positive sex workers in 2012

Jan. 23, 2024 11:49 AM EST

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The European Court of Human Rights ruled Tuesday that authorities in Greece violated the privacy rights of a group of women who were arrested and publicly identified in 2012 as HIV-positive prostitutes who allegedly endangered public health. The case was...

Lawsuit alleges HIV-positive inmate died after being denied medication at Northern California jail

Jan. 22, 2024 17:06 PM EST

PLACERVILLE, Calif. (AP) — A lawsuit filed by the family of a man who died after being held in a Northern California jail alleges he contracted a preventable viral infection there when its medical staff denied him critical HIV medication for two months. When Nicholas Overfield was...

Kentucky governor backs longer list of conditions eligible for treatment under medical marijuana law

Jan. 04, 2024 18:04 PM EST

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Access to medical marijuana in Kentucky should expand to include a longer list of severe health conditions, Gov. Andy Beshear said Thursday in advocating a change that would make hundreds of thousands more people eligible for treatment when the program begins next year. ...