U.S.: Did you know HIV-positive people couldn’t enter the U.S. for 22 years?
- If we want to be the global leader in combating HIV/AIDS, we need to act like it.
- Barack Obama • Describing his decision to turn over a 22-year-old ban on HIV-positive people entering the country. Just a dozen countries had the ban, which sounds like it was put in place at the height of misinformation and hysteria about the disease. While we’re glad it’s getting overturned, it’s a sad statement on our country that the ban existed in the first place. • source