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Saturday, October 31
Obama Signs HIV/AIDS Bill Extension...
... implements lifting of AIDS travel ban.
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The legislation provides care, treatment and support services to nearly half a million people, most of whom are low-income.
Obama also announced that the Department of Health and Human services has finally crafted a new regulation spelling the end to the HIV Travel and Immigration Ban.
Obama also announced that the Department of Health and Human services has finally crafted a new regulation spelling the end to the HIV Travel and Immigration Ban.
The regulation goes into effect in January.
“We often speak as if AIDS is going on somewhere else. Often overlooked is that we face a serious HIV/AIDS epidemic of our own,” Obama said prior to the signing. He noted that early on, AIDS was considered a “gay disease, and those who had it were viewed with suspicion.”
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Source: 365 Gay - 30/10/2009.
Friday, October 30
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Wednesday, October 28
Brotherhood: Gay Romance Wins...
top Rome Film Fest prize
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Brotherhood, the debut feature from a former fashion photographer turned filmmaker, has won the top prize at the Rome International Film Festival. .
After directing music videos, commercials and several short films, Danish-Italian director Nicolo Donato made his feature-length debut with Brotherhood.
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Winner of the festival's Golden Marc'Aurelio Jury Award for 2009, the film explores a surprising love affair that develops between two men who are members of a violent neo-Nazi group.
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Source: CBC News - 23/Oct/2009.
Repeal of Immigrant HIV Ban In Final Stages
The cruel and unnecessary ban on HIV+ immigrants and non-immigrants is a tiny step away from being history...
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This past summer, the U.S. Health and Human Services published proposed regulations to bring them in line with the Congressional repeal of the HIV ban in the last weeks of the Bush presidency in December 2008.
With these changes, HIV will no longer be considered a "communicable disease of public health significance" and will no longer be a grounds of "inadmissibility" as it has been for more than 20 years for non-immigrants and immigrants.
The comment period for the proposed regulations ended on August 17.
Source: LCL Blog - 27/Oct/2009.Keep Riding: http://www.masliah-soloway.com/blogs/2009/10/repeal-of-hiv-ban-in-final-stages.html
