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Wednesday, 30 July 2008 20:25
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 ACLU Applauds President and Congress:
21-Year U.S. Ban on HIV-Positive
Travelers Is Lifted
Today President George W. Bush is expected to sign into law the Tom Lantos & Henry J. Hyde U.S. Global Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Reauthorization Act of 2008, a presidential initiative to combat the global HIV/AIDS epidemic, including a provision ending the ban on HIV-positive travelers and immigrants.
The following can be attributed to Joanne Lin, ACLU Legislative Counsel:
"The ACLU applauds the president and Congress for their leadership in lifting a 21-year ban on HIV-positive travelers and immigrants. Today the president signed landmark HIV/AIDS legislation into law and ended a shameful era in American immigration policy. For a generation, HIV/AIDS was the only disease singled out in our immigration laws as a basis to ban visitors and immigrants from this country.
"Lifting the ban will remove the discriminatory barrier long faced by HIV-positive people and their families. Now the immigration laws will treat HIV/AIDS like other communicable diseases. This legislation is a major advance for all people living with HIV/AIDS."
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