US Ends Ban on HIV-Positive Travelers

Visitors, immigrants with infection no longer barred
By Will McCahill,  Newser Staff
Posted Jan 4, 2010 9:16 PM CST
US Ends Ban on HIV-Positive Travelers
Volunteers bearing HIV/AIDS awareness symbols take part in an AIDS awareness event on the World AIDS Day in Beijing, Dec. 1, 2009.   (AP Photo)

Today saw the end of a US ban on travel and immigration by HIV-positive individuals, a rule that had been in place since 1987. The Centers for Disease Control removed the infection from the category of “communicable diseases of public-health significance” after President Obama said last year the ban was “rooted in fear rather than fact.”
(More HIV travel ban stories.)

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