Legal aid

Legal aid lawyers work for private, nonprofit organizations for disadvantaged people. They generally handle civil cases, such as those about leases, job discrimination, and wage disputes, rather than criminal cases. Environmental lawyers deal with issues and regulations that are related to the environment. They may represent advocacy groups, waste disposal companies, and government agencies to make sure they comply with the relevant laws. Tax lawyers handle a variety of tax-related issues for…

Legal Aid Society’s Juvenile Rights Practice was established in 1962. The Practice was created in order to provide representation to children in New York City’s family court. The unit I work in is called the Juvenile Services Unit (JSU). The JSU is the part that involves social work into the practice. Staff members work on teams that are comprised of social workers, attorneys, investigators and paralegals. The staff members on each team share the responsibility for every case. This dynamics…

advancement to acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) refer to a retroviral infection that interferes with the human immune system, increasing a person’s risk for contracting common infections like Tuberculosis, opportunistic infections, and cancers that rarely affect others with unaltered immune systems. HIV is acquired through unprotected sex, contaminated blood transfusions, hypodermic needles, and from infected mother-to-child. Although HIV/AIDS was first recognized in the early 1980’s,…

Throughout history, the social progress, and sometimes regress, that has occurred can be explored by examining the situations deemed worthy of social and legal intervention by the most influential powers of that time period. Constructing a culpable, highly visible character as a metaphor for an emerging social or political concern is a recurring and sometimes convoluted way of regaining control of, or subduing, a perceived issue by a dominant group in society. Adopting a monster as a metaphor…

known as AIDS, is a serious medical condition that has spread from Central Africa to the rest of the world. AIDS is the final stage of HIV infection, however, not everyone gets AIDS from HIV. “AIDS is the stage of infection that occurs when your immune system is badly damaged and you become vulnerable to opportunistic infections. When the number of your CD4 cells falls below 200 cells per cubic millimeter of blood (200 cells/mm3), you are considered to have progressed to AIDS” (What is…

A First Case of HIV/AIDS Contamination in the United States in the early/mid 80's HIV/AIDS first appears in the United Stated in the early 80's. Because it seems at first to affect only gays men, the disease took the named of "gay cancer" and was described as an auto destruction of the immune system due of sexual orientation. In 1982, it was found that the disease was also touching heterosexual and was renamed AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome.) The Republican Party funded the…

In the 1980s, as reports of Aids cases began coming in from across the United States; the response from American politicians ranged from outright negligence to unfathomable, fear-based policies. Even as evidence mounted that HIV could not be transmitted by casual contact, politicians…

“Silence = Death” and “Women Don’t Get AIDS” looking at art and theatre’s social and political activism and its impact on society. The 1980s were very critical for the AIDS epidemic and there were constantly new discoveries. However, thousands of people were dying due to the lack of accurate information being presented to the public and the slow development of medicine was detrimental to finding effective treatments. This artist strongly shows the importance of AIDS as both social and political…

Dying With Dignity There are about 564,00 people who die yearly from cancer and about 3 million people die from HIV/AIDS these are the most common known terminal illnesses. Most people are even uncomfortable talking about these illnesses let alone how painful they can be to live through and how physicians assisted suicide could help. These illnesses are 2 of the most commonly known illnesses for being impossibly painful and for people having to suffer through them because they have no cure. In…

records concerning them, which are maintained by Federal agencies, to establish a Privacy Protection Study Commission, and for other purposes. In 1981, an epidemic of Human immunodeficiency virus infection and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) is a spectrum of conditions caused by infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Following initial infection, a person may experience a brief period…