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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Americanhero1 on October 30, 2009, 02:28:23 PM
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WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama said Friday the U.S. will overturn a 20-year-old U.S. travel ban against people with HIV early next year.
The order will be finalized on Monday, Obama said, completing a process begun during the Bush administration.
The U.S. has been one of about a dozen countries that bar entry to travelers based on their HIV status. Obama said it will be lifted just after the new year, after a waiting period of about 60 days.
"If we want to be a global leader in combatting 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 bill is named for an Indiana teenager who contracted AIDS through a blood transfusion at age 13. White went on to fight AIDS-related discrimination against him and others like him and help educate the country about the disease. He died in April 1990 at the age of 18.
His mother, Jeanne White-Ginder, attended the signing ceremony, as did several members of Congress and HIV/AIDS activists.
In 1987, at a time of widespread fear and ignorance about HIV, the Department of Health and Human Services added the disease to the list of communicable diseases that disqualified a person from entering the U.S.
The department tried in 1991 to reverse its decision but was opposed by Congress, which in 1993 went the other way and made HIV infection the only medical condition explicitly listed under immigration law as grounds for inadmissibility to the U.S.
The law effectively has kept out thousands of students, tourists and refugees and has complicated the adoption of children with HIV. No major international AIDS conference has been held in the U.S. since 1993, because HIV-positive activists and researchers cannot enter the country.
Obama said lifting the ban "is a step that will save lives" by encouraging people to get tested and to get treatment.
Rachel B. Tiven, executive director of Immigration Equality, said the ban pointlessly has barred people from the U.S. and separated families with no benefit to public health.
"Now, those families can be reunited, and the United States can put its mouth where its money is: ending the stigma that perpetuates HIV transmission, supporting science and welcoming those who seek to build a life in this country," said Tiven, whose organization works for fairness in immigration for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and HIV-positive people.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091030/ap_on_bi_ge/us_obama_aids
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Dam now 99.99% of Africans will be allowed to enter. >:(
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OMG, wait wait, he will actually allow africans with HIV enter the USA to get treatment?
that is just beyond sick
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AHero,
I am not surprised by this in the least.
Actually, I was waiting to see how long it would take before our inept President would go through with this.
Each day that passes with him and his equally inept Administration in the White House, America gets beaten down and broken down more by the second.
I really do believe that he has every intention of breaking down and destroying everything America's forefathers have put into place for us to live in our Great Nation.
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Obama is destroying this once great country this time by allowing AIDS-infected monkeys from Africa into America. >:(
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I wonder if they are doing this to allow Haitian refugees to come in.
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So how many Americans has Obama now condemned to be infected and die of AIDS? People that would have never caught it if not for what he did today. This is unbelievable!
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It's a wonder obama doesn't have aids himself. He got lucky.
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If he were HIV positive it would have been covered up
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If he were HIV positive it would have been covered up
Maybe that is why he has purple lips
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Well, it's not surprising....
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this is disgusting...how does this policy benefit the American taxpayer??
another obamanation!
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This must be a part of his massive health care plan. To treat those who are too dumb to keep their pants zipped up and he will do this for the whole world because it makes him Feel good. That is what liberalism is doing something not because it's right but it makes you feel good. What a sick freak we have running America I am so glad I'm not there right now
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For an administration that is right now so paranoid about "Swine Flu", he is allowing AIDS from foreign land to come ashore? There is a deeper issue on all of this... HEALTH CARE
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I really do believe that he has every intention of breaking down and destroying everything America's forefathers have put into place for us to live in our Great Nation.
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That's his goal, to limit the population for one world govt.
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Obama is destroying this country in every sector and every Business. Just what we need people with HIV infected blood going into hospitals and mingling with Gays in America! Makes me sick!
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Obama is an idiot...he is a puppet man for the bigger idiots...he will open the doors in this country to every diseased freak in the world and want to allow the muslims in to impose their sick laws in this country???... >:(
Hmmm i guess they forgot that they didnt take all of our guns yet...also our secret weapon of the southern united states...ohhhhhhh yessss the American Redneck...they have more guns and amo than our military hahahahahha :::D :laugh: ;D
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oh lets not forget all thos Sarah palin fans too....like me!
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