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President Obama just made the announcement that the HIV Travel and Immigration Ban will be gone starting January 2010.
The ban was first implemented in 1987 and was signed into law by Congress in 1993, prevented non-US citizens who were HIV-positive from traveling or immigrating to the US unless the Department of Homeland Security granted them a special waiver.
Last summe, Congress finally passed the policy reversal and former President Bush signed it into law, but that change was not finalized before the administration's term ended.
As of January 2010, the ban is gone for good. With the removal of this ban, any travel and immigration restrictions that are tied to a person's HIV status are eliminated.
I am so thrilled and happy to see the US moving one step closer to the elimination of stigma and discrimination towards persons living with HIV!
WOO!
vanessaaishacoleman
| 10/31/09 01:56 PM
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