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.
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