NYS Department of Health: Legal Rights and Risks of Adolescents in the Age of AIDS

NYS Department of Health AIDS Institute

HIV Education & Training Programs

This training will cover the legal rights and potential liabilities of adolescents living with, at risk for or affected by HIV.

As a result of this training, participants will be able to describe when minors can and cannot, make their own health care decisions when it comes to:

• HIV prevention, testing, treatment, and care
• STDs and other communicable diseases
• Alcohol and drug problems
• Mental health
• Reproductive health care
• Summarize who has the right to decide about disclosing health information about minors:
• When their parents are in the picture
• When foster care, school, public health, child abuse and neglect, and juvenile or criminal justice systems are involved in their lives
• Answer adolescent clients’ and patients’ questions about their legal rights in these areas
• Describe the legal consequences of transmitting HIV to others

Audience: All health and human services providers who work with or advocate youth at risk or living with HIV and/or with basic understanding of issues facing such adolescents.

Registration information: Click here to read about this and other courses provided by the Legal Action Center of the NYS Department of Health AIDS Institute.  Membership to the area is required.