The President now signed the bill that lifts a 22 year ban on people who are seeking an entry on United States that has HIV issues.
“If we want to be the global leader in combating HIV/AIDS, we need to act like it,” Obama said at the White House before signing a bill to extend the Ryan White HIV/AIDS program. Begun in 1990, the program provides medical care, medication and support services to about half a million people, most of them low-income.
The US is one of the countries ending the stigma of people who have AIDS/HIV. This is likely a good thing for people. Anyway it is really a good thing.
The 11 other countries that ban HIV-positive travelers and immigrants are: Armenia, Brunei, Iraq, Libya, Moldova, Oman, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Korea and Sudan, according to the advocacy group Immigration Equality.
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