USA Ceasing Ban on Travel for Foreign Nationals Infected with HIV

The only disease singled out in the US immigration law for exclusion will be revoked imminently. Gay rights advocates are applauding this move as a step closer to ending the discriminatory ban which has been in effect since 1987.

“Gay rights groups are praising the imminent release of a proposed regulation ending a 1987 U.S. ban on travel and immigration by foreign nationals infected with the virus that causes AIDS. Then-President George W. Bush signed into law last July a provision to remove H.I.V., the virus that causes AIDS, from a list of communicable diseases for which federal officials can deny visas or turn away travelers at borders, and the White House Office of Management and Budget indicated last week that it approved the regulation by the Department of Health and Human Services to carry out the law.”

Washington Post full article may be found here.