President Barack Obama and HIV/AIDS

Advising Obama

What would be the three things you would counsel President Barack Obama, to change immediately that would make a difference in HIV prevention and treatment in the United States?

Sandy Thurman
Faculty, Rollins School of Public Health, Atlanta, Ga.
Former "AIDS Czar" Under Former U.S. President Bill Clinton

First of all, I don't know how much difference this will actually make in HIV prevention and treatment, but I would ask President-elect Obama to get the Secretary of Health and Human Services to sign the waiver that allows people with HIV/AIDS to come into the United States and out of the United States freely, so we can finally have an international AIDS conference in the United States after all these years.

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