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AFY_JoeMonday, June 29, 2009 at 3:56:00 PM EDT
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Some outstanding news today from The Advocate, as they learn that the draconian HIV Travel Ban may soon be a thing of the past:
If this is the case, we'll be sure to provide you an easy link to give your "public comment" in this period.The first step to ending the HIV travel ban in the United States has been taken by the Obama administration. The Office of Management and Budget posted a notice on its site Friday afternoon indicating that the department of Health and Human Services could move forward with steps to change a regulation that has restricted HIV-positive people from gaining entrance into the United States.
The proposed change will likely have an impact on both travel and immigration to the United States. Under current regulations, non-U.S. citizens who are HIV-positive cannot travel to the United States unless they are granted a waiver by the Department of Homeland Security. Immigrants have also been required to be tested for HIV.
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Once HHS publishes the new regulation in the federal register next week, a 45-day window will be opened for public comment, after which HHS may make adjustments to the proposal and send it back to OMB for budgetary approval. After OMB green-lights the final regulation, HHS will once again enter the change into the federal registry for another 30- or 60-day review period, at which point it will automatically go into effect. In theory, Congress could act to block the change during that time, but that seems highly unlikely in this case.
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by eriauna_stratton
Here's some excerpts on the history from the site:
It's nice to see more change come out of the Obama admin but unfortunately I doubt this will get media coverage. Sucks since everyone should know that the US has restrictions on people who try to enter this country legally, restrictions that as seen in this case also act as discrimination.