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January 04, 2010

US lifts HIV/AIDS immigration ban

BBC reports on the final demise of the counterproductive, fear-based, and cruel HIV immigration ban:

The US has lifted a 22-year immigration ban which has stopped anyone with HIV/Aids from entering the country.
President Obama said the ban was not compatible with US plans to be a leader in the fight against the disease.
The new rules come into force on Monday and the US plans to host a bi-annual global HIV/Aids summit for the first time in 2012.
The ban was imposed at the height of a global panic about the disease at the end of the 1980s.
It put the US in a group of just 12 countries, also including Libya and Saudi Arabia, that excluded anyone suffering from HIV/Aids.

Posted by Rick Rosendall at 07:54:05 AM in Health, Human Rights, International |