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Obama Lifts Ban On Persons With HIV/AIDS From Entering Country

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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

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50 Essential Open Courseware Classes & Research Papers to Learn About HIV & AIDS

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Breakthrough documentary 'House of Numbers' challenges conventional thinking on HIV, AIDS by Mike Ad

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Making a Difference is as Easy as Pie. Pre-Order Your Thanksgiving pies from Project Angel Food

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The Health of The Community

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Rep. Maxine Waters @ Black Caucus Discusses HIV/AIDS and Health Care Reform

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I Am an Endangered Species

Actress Chery Lee Ralph delivers a powerful opening to a conversation about meeting... more

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HIV: NYC

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HEALTH-SOUTHERN AFRICA: Role for Marijuana in AIDS Treatment

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POZ - POZ Magazine - POZ.com - News : Utah Researchers Make Progress on “Molecular Condom”

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HIV-blocking gel for women

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Designers against AIDS new headquarter's renovation is gaining speed!

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HIV-Positive Porn Actress Sues California Health Officials for Privacy Violations

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HIV drugs tests of 'no benefit'

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Male Circumcision and HIV Transmission Rates protects Men, not Women

The Bill and Melinda Gates foundation just recently allocated 50 million to male circumcision programs in Africa based on studies that showed it reduced the HIV AIDS transmission rates. This new information calls male circumcision partially into question.

Dr. Maria Wawer of Johns Hopkins and her Uganda colleagues stopped their most recent male circumcision trial because it proved ineffective at preventing the spread of HIV from men to their female partners.

Wawer's earlier studies of male circumcision in Uganda — like other studies in Kenya — showed unequivocally that male circumcision could reduce female-to-male transmission rates. As nearly 3 decades of dealing with HIV-AIDS as an international public health crisis has shown, simply educating people about barrier contraception and making contraception more readily and inexpensively available — both difficult endeavors in developing countries, for a variety of reasons — are simply not having the same effect in some countries on reducing HIV transmission rates that developed countries like the U.S. experienced (let alone that such efforts seem to plateau when the perception of immediate danger declines and rates go up again). It's entirely possible (and somewhat unsurprising) that education and contraception access simply don't trump human sexual urges, culture and tradition, which is why scientists think adult male circumcision programs could provide a necessary addition to the HIV-AIDS reduction arsenal.

Wawer and her team were hopeful that male circumcision could reduce male-to-female transmission rates as well, given that in many places, women don't have access to barrier contraception or the power in sexual relationships to demand its use even if their partner's HIV status is known. Unfortunately, their hypothesis was incorrect.

"However, the efficacy of male circumcision for prevention of HIV in uninfected men is clear, and reductions in male acquisition of HIV attributable to circumcision are likely to reduce women's exposure to HIV-infected men. Male circumcision programs are thus likely to confer an overall benefit to women," the researchers concluded.The Bill and Melinda Gates foundation just recently allocated 50 million to male... more