Office for Civil Rights HIV/AIDS

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Civil Rights Resources

• Your Rights as a Person with HIV Infection or AIDS [PDF - 59KB]
• Your Rights under Section 504 and the Americans with Disabilities Act
• Your Rights under the Age Discrimination Act
• Your Rights under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
• OCR fact sheets in other languages

Summaries of Selected OCR Complaint Investigations to Protect the Civil Rights of Persons with HIV/AIDS

• A.T. Associates, Inc. (Resolved on September 11, 2007) - OCR secured corrective action at A.T. Associates’ nursing home chain to make approximately 200 additional nursing home beds available to persons with HIV/AIDS in Northern California. OCR’s Region IX office investigated the complaint, which was filed by an African-American veteran who attempted to get admitted to an A. T. Associates nursing home after hip-replacement surgery. However, because of the complainant’s HIV status and young age, the nursing home refused to admit him. After completing the investigation, OCR intervened and required the nursing home chain (which consists of three Northern California skilled nursing facilities) to: (1) issue to all staff a new nondiscrimination policy expressly prohibiting HIV/AIDS discrimination and place the new policy in patient brochures; (2) provide annual mandatory staff training on the new nondiscrimination policy, procedures for admitting persons with HIV/AIDS, universal precautions, and the protection of patients’ health information privacy; (3) notify hospital discharge planners that its facilities now admit otherwise qualified persons with HIV/AIDS; and (4) affirm its compliance with Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, 29 U.S.C. § 794; and the Age Discrimination Act of 1975, 42 U.S.C. § 6101 et seq. Read the A. T. Associates Closure Letter.

HOW TO FILE A HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES CIVIL RIGHTS COMPLAINT - Information on filing a complaint alleging a violation of your civil rights. Complaints must be filed within 180 days from the date of the alleged discriminatory act unless there is "good cause".

Health Information Privacy Resources

• Your Health Information Privacy Rights
• Privacy and Your Health Information
• Privacy of Health Information Home Page

HOW TO FILE A HEALTH INFORMATION PRIVACY COMPLAINT - Information on filing a complaint alleging a violation of your health information privacy rights.

Other Resources:

•  Other Federal resources (includes documents and resources, including promising practices, from other HHS components and from other Federal agencies)
•  State and Local Government resources (includes documents, references from State and Local Governments and promising practices)
•  Non-Government resources (includes documents from Non-Government agencies)

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