Disability Grant: a precarious lifeline for HIV/AIDS patients in South Africa

Background: In South Africa, HIV/AIDS remains a major public health problem. In a context of chronic unemployment and deepening poverty, social assistance through a Disability Grant (DG) is extended to adults with HIV/AIDS who are unable to work because of a mental or physical disability. Using a mixed methods approach, we consider 1) inequalities in access to the DG for patients on ART and 2) implications of DG access for on-going access to healthcare. Methods: Data were collected in exit interviews with 1200 ART patients in two rural and two urban health sub-districts in four different South African provinces. Additionally, 17 and 18 in-depth interviews were completed with patients on ART treatment and ART providers, respectively, in three of the four sites included in the quantitative phase. Results: Grant recipients were comparatively worse off than non-recipients in terms of employment (9.1 % vs. 29.9 %) and wealth (58.3 % in the poorest half vs. 45.8 %). After controlling for socioeconomic and demographic factors, site, treatment duration, adherence and concomitant TB treatment, the regression analyses showed that the employed were significantly less likely to receive the DG than the unemployed (

Conversation with Dr. Yusef Salaam

Monday, March 24, 2025 | 12:30 PM | Eck Hall of Law, Room 1130 BLSA, as part of the Exoneration Justice Clinic\u27s Death Penalty Abolition Week, will host a conversation and fireside chat with Councilmember Yusef Salaam of the exonerated Central Park 5 at 12:30 PM in Eck 1130. Councilmember Salaam was a part of a group of 5 Black and Latinx teenagers who were wrongfully convicted in 1989 in the famous Central Park jogger case. Councilmember Salaam served nearly 7 years of prison time before his exoneration and vindication in 1997. Please register here. Sponsors: American Constitution Society Black Law Students Association Exoneration Justice Clinic Klau Institute for Civil and Human Rights Middle Eastern Law Students Association Notre Dame Exoneration Project Public Interest Law Forumhttps://scholarship.law.nd.edu/ndls_posters/2050/thumbnail.jp

Don't I Need a Lawyer?

For more than a decade, The Constitution Project National Right to Counsel Committee (“Committee”) has examined the state of indigent defense in our country, determined to assist governments in realizing the promise of Gideon v. Wainwright that any person accused of a crime – regardless of his or her ability to afford a lawyer – has the right to effective legal representation under the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution. In 2009, the Committee issued a landmark report, Justice Denied, which documents the structural and financial impediments jurisdictions face in ensuring that any person accused of a crime receives effective assistance of counsel. In 2013, we commemorated the 50th anniversary of the Gideon decision with production and release of Defending Gideon, a short, publicly available film that weaves the story of Clarence Gideon into contemporary portraits of legal injustice, highlighting the importance of a system that guarantees representation for all—and the dire consequences when that system fails. The Committee’s newest report, Don’t I Need a Lawyer?, addresses one of the most common and overlooked deprivations of this constitutionally-guaranteed right experienced by poor criminal defendants across the United States: the denial of counsel when a judge or magistrate determines whether someone accused of a crime will be incarcerated or will remain free prior to trial

Remain in Mexico: How Tent Courts Fail Asylum Seekers and Abandon Due Process

Tuesday, October 29, 2019, 12:30-1:30 p.m., McCartan Courtroom A talk with Professor Lisa Koop, Associate Director of Legal Services, National Immigrant Justice Centerhttps://scholarship.law.nd.edu/ndls_posters/1453/thumbnail.jp

Remain in Mexico: How Tent Courts Fail Asylum Seekers and Abandon Due Process

Tuesday, October 29, 2019, 12:30-1:30 p.m., McCartan Courtroom A talk with Professor Lisa Koop, Associate Director of Legal Services, National Immigrant Justice Centerhttps://scholarship.law.nd.edu/ndls_posters/1453/thumbnail.jp

Judge Luis Felipe Restrepo

Judge Luis Felipe Restrepo Third Circuit Court of Appealshttps://scholarship.law.nd.edu/ndls_posters/1621/thumbnail.jp

Judge Luis Felipe Restrepo

Judge Luis Felipe Restrepo Third Circuit Court of Appealshttps://scholarship.law.nd.edu/ndls_posters/1621/thumbnail.jp

Transgender Public Interest Litigation

Anya Marino, Clinical Instructor, Harvard LGBTQ+ Advocacy Clinichttps://scholarship.law.nd.edu/ndls_posters/1576/thumbnail.jp