Archive for the ‘HIV’ Category

UN Lauds US for Lifting HIV Travel Ban

Friday, January 8th, 2010

The Associated Press reports that the United Nations have praised United States and South Korea for ending their policies restricting entry of people living with HIV and urged 57 other countries to follow the same.  UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibe lauded the actions as “a Victory for human rights on ...

DOS’ Q&A on Removal of HIV from CDCs List of Communicable Diseases

Monday, December 21st, 2009

The U.S. Department of State had published Q&As on Center for Disease Control’s (CDC) rule change that removes HIV from the list of communicable diseases of public health significance and allows HIV infected foreign visitors to enter the U.S.. Readers may recall that on July 02, 2009 we published news ...