On October 30th President Obama announced he will reverse a bill made 22 years ago banning any non U.S. citizens from entering the country if he or she has HIV/AIDS.
The bill was in place in 1987 by the Department of Health and Human Services. The Bill was to be reversed by the department in 1991 but was voted down by congress.
President Obama Stated, ‘Twenty-two years ago, in a decision rooted in fear rather than fact, the United States instituted a travel ban on entry into the country for people living with HIV/AIDS. Now, we talk about reducing the stigma of this disease ‘” yet we ve treated a visitor living with it as a threat. We lead the world when it comes to helping stem the AIDS pandemic ‘” yet we are one of only a dozen countries that still bar people from HIV from entering our own country. If we want to be the global leader in combating HIV/AIDS, we need to act like it.’
“The travel ban has become a relic of an era in which policy was dictated by fear rather than by science, and now the science has caught up,” Dr. Mark Kline, chair of pediatrics at the Baylor College of Medicine said to the Seattle PI.
The reversal was signed by George W. Bush back in 2008, but was unable to finish it before the term ended.
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