Event

HIV/AIDS Law & Practice Conference 2014 - Atlanta, GA

Date   Feb 28 - Mar 1, 2014
Location   


When
February 28 and March 1, 2014

Where
Georgia State University College of Law / Center For Law, Health & Society
140 Decatur Street
Atlanta, GA 30303


Program

Friday, February 28

8:00 AM - Registration
8:45 AM - Welcome from Dawn Siler-Nixon, Chair, ABA AIDS Coordinating Committee and Richard Wilson, Vice Chair, ABA AIDS Coordinating Committee
9:00 AM - Opening Plenary - HIV and the Affordable Care Act: Implications for Ryan White and
Ensuring Access to Quality Care
11:00 AM - Break
11:15 AM - Workshops

  • Status of HIV Criminalization / Sex Workers / Stigma
  • Administrative Proceedings: Social Security and Immigration

12:30 PM - Break for lunch (provided)
1:00 PM - Alexander Forger Awards for Sustained Excellence in the Provision of HIV Legal Services and Advocacy

  • Hon. Chair Feldblum, EEOC
  • Carolyn McAllaster, Duke University School of Law
  • David I. Schulman, Los Angeles City Attorney's Office (ret.)
  • AIDS Law Project of Pennsylvania
  • Lambda Legal

2:00 PM - Luncheon concludes
2:15 PM - Workshops

  • Maintaining Consent and Confidentiality in the Modern Era
  • Coping with HIV in a Managed Care Environment

4:00 PM - Plenary - Women and HIV
5:30 PM - Friday program concludes - Reception/Happy Hour

Saturday, March 1
9:00 AM - Opening Plenary - HIV Litigation — Updates and Trends
10:30 AM - Break
10:45 AM - Workshops

  • HIV Globally
  • HIV, Family Law, and Reproductive Health

12:15 PM - Break for lunch
12:30 PM - Luncheon Plenary: "deepsouth"

  • 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 redefine traditional Southern values to create their own solutions to survive.

1:45  PM - HIV in the South: "Southern Strategies"
2:30 PM - Break
2:45 PM - Closing Plenary - Creating Real Change in the HIV Care Continuum and Treatment Cascade

  • How to address the gap in who knows their HIV status, those accessing treatment, and the low number of people actually accessing, using, and benefiting from medical interventions. Identify, challenge, and change the structural barriers that keep people from getting tested, treated, and engaged.

4:15 PM - Closing Remarks from Dawn Siler-Nixon, Chair, ABA AIDS Coordinating Committee
4:30 PM - Adjourn

Registration
This is a free legal conference for students.