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The social welfare of women and children with HIV and AIDS : legal protections, policy, and programs

Title: The social welfare of women and children with HIV and AIDS : legal protections, policy, and programs / Theodore J. Stein.
Author: Stein, Theodore J.
Publication: New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.

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Description

xiii, 258 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

"The Social Welfare of Women and Children with HIV and AIDS examines the issues surrounding this growing epidemic, including discrimination in employment, housing, health care, and education, and explores such important topics as medical testing, confidentiality, reproductive freedom, income assistance, child welfare, and child custody. The text provides a comprehensive overview of public policy and legislation regarding these issues, focusing on the federal and state statutes that protect women and children with HIV and AIDS from discrimination. These statutes govern the operation of the public systems to which significant numbers of women with HIV and AIDS turn to for social services and financial, medical, and housing needs. The test also examines programs that affect the lives of women with children, such as child protective programs and foster care programs, and looks at specific issues of discrimination, including exclusion of children from regular classrooms, exclusion of women from experimental drug testing and research trials, and the denial of financial assistance to women because eligibility is based on signs and symptoms of HIV in men."--BOOK JACKET. "The Social Welfare of Women and Children with HIV and AIDS provides detailed information on court decisions which have set the precedents for the way the system deals with the problems facing today's growing HIV and AIDS infected population. It also considers the impact of the increasing number of women turning to the public sector for assistance with financial and medical problems in an era of government retrenchment. Written in clear and accessible language, The Social Welfare of Women and Children with HIV and AIDS is vital reading for students and practitioners in social work, public health, and law as well as a valuable aid for students of women's studies."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Child welfare

Uniform Title

Child welfare (Oxford University Press)

Subject

Genre/Form

Legislation
statutes.
law codes.
Statutes and codes
Session laws
Statutes and codes.
Session laws.
Lois et codes.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-246) and index.

Contents

Introduction -- The policy framework : status-conferring policies -- The policy framework : benefit-conferring policies -- The care of children and the child welfare system -- Confidentiality, testing, and reproductive choice -- Adolescents and HIV and AIDS : population demographics and prevention strategies -- Welfare reform and its effects on women and children with HIV and AIDS.

ISBN

0195109414
9780195109412
0195109422
9780195109429

LCCN

96050095

OCLC

ocm36059976
36059976
SCSB-9010636

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library