Deportation From Usa On Hiv Aids Grounds

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United States Should Not Deport HIV-Positive Immigrants, Opinion Piece Says

The United States should reverse its policy of deporting HIV-positive immigrants and should allow HIV-positive individuals to visit the country, columnist Jonathan Rauch writes in his National Journal column. The policy of barring HIV-positive... Read more »

U.S. Attorney General Should Allow Deported Man To Return to U.S. to Care for HIV-Positive Boy, Editorial Says

U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft should "ease the ... misery" of an HIV-positive 11-year-old boy in California by allowing his legal guardian -- an illegal immigrant who was deported to Mexico in June -- to return to the United States "on... Read more »

U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Great Britain: HIV Student to Be Deported "to Her Death" in Malawi

Home Secretary David Blunkett has been accused of signing the death warrant of an HIV-positive Malawian student by ordering her deportation from Britain. The student, who lives near Oxford, came to England to visit friends in 1999 and sought to... Read more »

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HIV/AIDS in the USA...World AIDS Day

As World AIDS Day approaches, we are hearing much about the pandemic in Africa and other resource-poor areas of the world. What about the U.S.? Do we have this problem under control? No one seems to talk about AIDS here anymore. Can you give us the...

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D.

The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation

Hello,I wish I could report we had HIV under control here, but in fact that is not the case. In fact many of the commitments the Bush Administration promised in 2001 at the U.N. General Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS turned out to be all... Read more »

deporte y el sida

puede el virus del sida afectar de manera perjudicial a algun deportista que lo contraiga?...

Response from Jorge Santana Bagur, M.D.

Universidad de Puerto Rico

El virus de VIH que causa SIDA puede afectar a CUALQUIER PERSONA SIN DISCRIMINAR.... Read more »

entering the usa with HIV MEDICATIONS???

Dear doctor,We would like to visit your country but we read that fortourists with HIV medicationsin their luguage they can be sendback to Europe because american immigration would NOT allow tourists with HIV medications in their bags??? Is this true...

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D.

The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation

Hello,You are correct. The heinous HIV travel and immigration ban was codified into law as part of the NIH's reauthorization act of 1993. The ban was actually in place long before that. In fact, it was the cause of the massive boycott of the... Read more »

Deported If Positive

Hi Dr. Bob,Thanks for your advice to all concerned. I live and work in a country where foreigners are deported if they test positive. I recently visited another country and intended to get tested there but I chickened out at the hospital. I told the...

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D.

The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation

Hello,Sorry bud; getting liver function tests and a urine screen do not give any information about your HIV status. The only way to determine HIV status is to get an HIV-specific test. Now what's this nonsense about "chickening out"... Read more »

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The view at AIDS ground zero

Posted by Anonymous, 2 Replies

You know with all these retarded members of the HEAL cult posting incessantly it's easy to imagine they have something to say....They don't and they post here cause no respectable newspaper shares their point of view or covers anything they do... Read more »

HIV and immigration OUT of USA

Posted by Dizengoff, 4 Replies

I am HIV+. My life is now over before it even began. All I want is someone to share my life with. I have tried, and cannot get a boyfriend... I have a responsibility to tell them I am positive, and that always scares them off... so I figure I should... Read more »

Best place to live in USA with HIV?

Posted by TonyBakerOK, 5 Replies

Hello.

I have been positive since 2005, and have lived in Tennessee, Texas, California and Currently Oklahoma.

It seems like every state is different when it comes to HIV services and Ryan White stuff.

I just moved HOME to Oklahoma and I am miserable,... Read more »

Ground Zero

Posted by Anonymous

I was wondering if anyone here, through all their research on AIDS, ever came across an article(s) regarding the "beginning" of HIV in the US. I know that the blood supply became contaminated enough by 1978 to cause infections in blood... Read more »

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