Posted by: Administrator
in Miscellaneous on Nov 02, 2009
Travel and immigration ban for people with HIV is being lifted by the Obama administration and will take effect early next year. At present, travelers with visas to the U.S. or seeking green card are not permitted to enter.
President Barack Obama is signing a bill to extend the Ryan White HIV/AIDS program. He said, “If we want to be the global leader in combating HIV/AIDS, we need to act like it.”
Intended purpose of this law is to release stigma against HIV/AIDS. Obama has said that this stigma “has stopped people from getting tested and has helped spread the disease.” According to Associated Press, “Obama noted his own effort several years ago to help combat the stigma. During a 2006 visit to Kenya, his father’s native country, then Sen. Obama and his wife, Michelle, publicly took an HIV/AIDS test.”
In the U.S. more than 1 million people live with this disease and every year there are 56,000 newly reported cases.
