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Island of Love: South Korean Erotic Sculpture Garden

http://thefortuno.com/island-of-love/ Jeju Island (South Korea) is called “the... more

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Fully autonomous vehicles are getting much closer. Many cars already have safetey... more

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Nepal - Now in Top 10 World Travel Destinations

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Baseball's Street Beats — BaseCrawl Chapter 10: Busch Stadium

A ballpark's personality is defined as much by its street music as its architecture,... more

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Today's Mystery Bird for you to Identify [pic]

Today's Mystery Bird for you to Identify [pic] [Mystery bird] endemic to the South... more

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Know Your Meme; Where The Hell is Matt

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METRO NOCTURNO | SUBWAY IN THE NIGHT

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Today's Mystery Birds for you to Identify [pic]

[Mystery birds] photographed in Boulia Shire, far west Queensland, Australia [I will... more

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Barack Obama lifts HIV/AIDS US travel ban

Barack Obama said that a US travel ban against people infected with the HIV virus will be overturned early next year.

The order will be completed on Monday, Obama said, finishing a process begun during the administration of George Bush.

The United States is one of about a dozen countries that bar entry to travellers based on their HIV status. The ban has been in place for more than 20 years. 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 combating 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 programme. Begun in 1990, the program provides medical care, medication and support services to about half a million Americans with HIV or Aids, mostly low-income people.

The bill is named for an teenager who contracted Aids through a blood transfusion at age 13. Ryan White went on to fight Aids-related discrimination against him and others like him in the late 1980s and to help educate Americans about the disease. He died in April 1990 aged 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 United States.

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 country.

The law effectively has kept out thousands of students, tourists and refugees and complicated the adoption of children with HIV. No major international Aids conference has been held in the United States since 1993 because HIV-positive activists or researchers could not 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.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/oct/30/obama-ends-hiv-travel-banBarack Obama said that a US travel ban against people infected with the HIV virus will... more