WASHINGTON - Experts at an international AIDS conference held in Mexico City assigned a value to United States for reversing a 15-years-old law, prohibiting HIV-positives from entering the country.
President Bush has signed that act into law since two months, his management has not taken any step yet, required to put the signed law into practice, and legislatives and advocacy groups are wondering what is going on.
“We write to encourage you to act quickly to remove HIV from the list of communicable diseases of public health significance and end the HIV travel and immigration ban,” Sens. John Kerry, D-Mass., and Gordon Smith, R-Ore., main supporter of the measure in the Senate, wrote to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Michael Leavitt last month. Fifty-eight House Democrats last week sent a letter to Bush that urged him to take “swift action on this issue.” …Click here to read more

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