HIV-Positive Foreigners No Longer Restricted From Visiting U.S.

by Brittany Durdin on January 5, 2010 · 0 comments

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HIV-positive foreigners trying to travel to the U.S. can now visit and avoid all the complications that were previously involved. The Department of Health and Human Services and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention lifted HIV from the list of diseases that deny people who are not U.S. citizens access into the country.

“The end of the HIV travel and immigration ban is the beginning of a new life for countless families and thousands who had been separated because of this policy,” states Steve Ralls. Under this new rule visas no longer have to state if a person is HIV-positive, and the new regulation also “removes required testing for HIV infection from the U.S. immigration medical screening process and eliminates the need for a waiver for entry into the United States,” reports CNN.

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