to serious medical needs.” Estelle v. Gamble, 429 U.S. 97, 104, 97 S.Ct. 285, 50 L.Ed.2d 251 (1976). Prison officials are deliberately indifferent to a prisoner’s serious medical needs when they “deny, delay, or intentionally interfere with medical treatment” for a serious medical need. Hunt v. Dental Dep’t, 865 F.2d 198, 201 (9th Cir.1989) (citation and internal quotation marks omitted). There is evidence in this record that prison officials simply refused to follow the directions of Plaintiff’s treating physician with respect to treatments designed to combat the onset of AIDS. Plaintiff’s medical need for the treatment was serious, and there is evidence that the officials were deliberately indifferent to that need. See Wakefield v. Thompson, 177 F.3d 1160, 1165 (9th Cir.1999) (<HOLDING>). There also is evidence that Plaintiff was
holding that a prison official acts with deliberate indifference when he ignores the instructions of the prisoners treating physician holding that deliberate indifference to prisoners medical needs is cruel and unusual punishment holding that the prison physician lacked standing to raise the prisoners rights of access to the courts holding that the eighth amendment protects prisoners only from deliberate indifference to their serious medical needs holding that the eighth amendment is violated when prolonged detention is the result of deliberate indifference where prison officials failed to investigate claims in prisoners letter questioning the method used to compute his release date