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We use the power of the law to secure dignity, opportunity, and well-being for people facing barriers due to illness or disability. Objective • To ensure that you understand the importance of guarding confidential medical information, how HIV information is treated differently from other medical information, discrimination that takes place today and the importance of confidentiality, and the provisions of applicable privacy laws including the Illinois AIDS Confidentiality Act. Agenda • Privacy and confidentiality. • Why do we have heightened protections for HIV? • How you can protect the privacy and confidentiality of people living with HIV. A few terms we will use today • PLWH – People Living with HIV • IL ACA – Illinois AIDS Confidentiality Act • HIPAA – Heath Insurance Portability and Accountability Act • PHI – Protected Health Information What is privacy and confidentiality? • What is privacy? • Definition of privacy 1 • 1a : the quality or state of being apart from company or observation : seclusion • 1b : freedom from unauthorized intrusion one's right to privacy • 2a : secrecy • 2b : a private matter : secret • What is confidentiality? • Definition of confidential 2 • 1 : marked by intimacy or willingness to confide a confidential tone • 2 : private, secret confidential information • 3 : entrusted with confidences a confidential clerk • 4 : containing information whose unauthorized disclosure could be prejudicial to the national interest — top secret • 1 https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/privacy • 2 https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/confidentiality
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