New York can try to keep a man who infected women with H.I.V. locked up beyond his sentence, a judge ruled.
A judge allowed prosecutors to use a civil-confinement law to try to keep Nushawn Williams in prison past his sentence.
Agnes Cybulska filed a lawsuit charging that Dana Hammond, an heiress to the Annenberg family fortune, refused to hire her unless she tested negative for H.I.V.
A measure would expand assistance for New Yorkers with H.I.V. or AIDS. The mayor’s office says the expense would stress the city budget.
Nushawn J. Williams, who was believed to have knowingly infected a number of people in upstate New York with H.I.V., was due to be released on Tuesday.
The lawyer and former City Human Rights Commissioner disclosed his H.I.V.-positive status in the early 1990s, when AIDS was far more stigmatized than it is today.
A federal study of the “test and treat” strategy to fight the spread of AIDS will focus on the District of Columbia and the Bronx.Federal health officials are planning to study a “test and treat” strategy to stop the spread of the AIDS virus in the District of Columbia and the Bronx.
Mr. Hilferty was a writer and activist who made a documentary film in 1989 that roiled the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York and the Public Broadcasting Service.
Dr. Berkman was a Vietnam-era radical who founded a group that helped make AIDS medications available to some of the world’s poorest people.