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Hiv And Visiting The Usa

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Is still banned to get in USA with HAART? (TRAVEL RESTRICTIONS, ENTERING THE USA)

Hi there, Id like to know if there has been any kind of improvement in order to let people using HAART to get into the country of freedom (USA I mean... :-( ) I need urgently to get there for job reasons but Ive been succesfully on the same combo...
Robert J. Frascino, M.D.

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D.

The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation
Hello Antonio,Unfortunately no, Bush had promised to lift the ban, but apparently hasn't gotten around to it yet. Don't hold your breath. There may well be no action on this until he is run out of office and firmly ensconced in the history... 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... Read more »

4th Generation HIV test USA

Hi Dr,I had a potential HIV risk exposure and want to get tested quickly. From extensive internet... Read more »
Articles
Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation

USA Today Profiles Partnership Among Baylor University, Romanian Government, NGOs to Help HIV-Positive Children

USA Today on Tuesday profiled several U.S.-Romanian programs aimed at helping HIV-positive Romanian youth, most of whom contracted the virus from unscreened blood transfusions. Mark Kline, a pediatric AIDS specialist at Baylor College of Medicine... Read more »
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Antiretroviral Treatment of Adult HIV Infection: 2010 Recommendations of the International AIDS Society-USA Panel

"Successful antiretroviral therapy (ART) is associated with dramatic decreases in AIDS-defining conditions and their associated mortality," the authors wrote in introducing their updated treatment recommendations. Since the 2008 guidelines were... Read more »
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

HIV Discoverers Envision Vaccines: Scientists Visit Conference in Hollywood

At the United States AIDS Conference in Hollywood, Fla., Dr. Robert Gallo, director of the Human Virology Institute at the University of Maryland, said his team is working on a vaccine that would prevent HIV from getting inside human cells. Since... Read more »
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Maryland: In Baltimore Visit, Young Zimbabwean Extols Lifesaving HIV Treatment

Tichaona Mudhobhi, a 20-year-old Zimbabwean, is crossing the United States on a six-week speaking tour sponsored by Catholic Relief Services. Near CRS' headquarters in downtown Baltimore, Mudhobhi recently met with 25 other HIV-positive youths to... Read more »
Connect With Others

Non-support from Churches in USA

Posted by Anonymous, 1 Reply
My best friend and son died of AIDS, January 25, 1997. It's been five years and still seems like yesterday. I am a Christian, member of one of the largest Baptist church in the south. I am on a crusade, mission, whatever, to get more
churches,... Read more »

Immigrants living in the USA!!!

Posted by Anonymous, 5 Replies
Hello everyone. The past 2 weeks questions have been posted with regards to travelling outside the USA and coming back into the USA if you are not an American citizen. I must say thank you very much to Scotcharles for the information provided.... 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 »

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