HIV+ ban on US lifted!

[kevyn]

Excellent news... Canadians and others with HIV can now travel freely to the United States, without fear of being turned away at the border. Bush has signed into law an AIDS funding bill that lifts the ban on people with HIV entering the United States!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7534272.stm

For once, Bush has actually done something positive with that pen...
(Of course, I have to wonder if there are any signing statements attached).

Comments

[lostncove.livejournal.com]

See, we just don't know about the fine print.

"Non-Americans with HIV can now travel freely to the United States...as long as they proceed directly to the concentration camps set up for all those icky, icky gays."

[kevynjacobs.livejournal.com]

Icky.

[kennapea.livejournal.com]

wow!
i'm impressed.

[kevynjacobs.livejournal.com]

Me too. I have lots of gay friends in Canada who are HIV+ who haven't been able to travel to the U.S. for years and years.

[kennapea.livejournal.com]

because people who know they have it are a huge concern?
hm.

[kevynjacobs.livejournal.com]

It was fear and anti-gay sentiment, pure and simple.

[kennapea.livejournal.com]

perhaps that's why it makes no sense to me.
at least it's gone, though.
well, the ban, anyhow.