Posted on 10/30/2009 11:51:08 AM PDT by darkside321
The US is to end its 22-year ban on people with HIV entering the country, President Barack Obama has confirmed.
Mr Obama made the announcement as he extended funding for an act that provides HIV/Aids related health care.
"If we want to be the global leader in combating HIV/Aids, we need to act like it," Mr Obama said.
The US is one of only about a dozen countries barring entry on HIV status. The ban is expected to be lifted at the beginning of 2010.
'End the stigma'
Mr Obama confirmed the move as he signed the Ryan White HIV/Aids Treatment Extension Act.
Mr Obama said the entry ban had been "rooted in fear rather than fact".
He said: "We lead the world when it comes to helping stem the Aids pandemic - yet we are one of only a dozen countries that still bar people with HIV from entering our own country.
"On Monday, my administration will publish a final rule that eliminates the travel ban effective just after the New Year."
Mr Obama added: "It will also take an effort to end the stigma that has stopped people from getting tested, that has stopped people from facing their own illness and that has sped the spread of this disease for far too long."
The process to lift the ban had begun under the administration of George W Bush.
The Ryan White Act is named after a 13-year-old boy who contracted the virus via blood transfusion and helped educate Americans about the disease until his death in 1990 aged 18.
The act helps about 500,000 people, many on low incomes, by providing treatment and support.
HIV was added in 1987 to the list of diseases disqualifying people from entering the US.
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Sickening.
WTF.
no repercussions for our health care costs there /sarc
Should be ‘breaking news,’ IMO.
It’s the only way his new appointments can travel.
Why is it sickening? Are you still in the 1980’s mentality where you think you can get Aids by being around someone with AIDS.
The destruction of our health care system continues.
...and the problem with this is..........????????????
It’s just a matter of time till the ACLU files suit against the Red Cross for banning the HIV infected from donating.
At the top of the hour snooze report, I heard him thank the Bush administration for getting this process started....
They’ll want to get “free” health care here. That’s the problem.
The process to lift the ban had begun under the administration of George W Bush.
Well, no, but speaking for myself, I'm in the 21st century mentality that I can pay for AIDS treatment for non-Americans and worry about the quality of blood transfusions that will be available when I or my family members need therm
Why stop with HIV? What about folks with the new TB strain?
BO and his commissars want to really bring down America every way they can...flood the US with sickies who’ll want free health care. Aliens? no problem! They’ll make them citizens and we’ll be stuck with even more taxes!
Now we can understand your post.
You are really a Moderate Democrat, socially liberal, fiscally conservative.
All these homosexuals better be categorized “high risk” as they will be increasisng the burden of healthcare costs in this country and THEY should be the ones paying for the stupid bill. If smokers and fat people have to pay more then so should these folks.
Is it now a hate crime to put together some recent news stories? (1) Let in people with AIDS. (2) Give asylum to gay foreigners who fear persecution. (3) Cut medical expenses by rationing medical care to older Americans.
Obamacare is going to cover THIS pre-existing “situation” also....(notice it’s about 4 years “behind”)...
http://www.omhrc.gov/Assets/pdf/Checked/Caribbean.pdf
Notice the percentages, especially the “Hispanic” percentages of HIV ( and again, the #’s are 4-5 years old).
Why is it sickening?
At a time when our health Care System is going through an enormously expensive upheavel the last thing we can afford is an open gate policy on people with need of expensive and long term care. Our elderly will be denied care so HIV infected immigrants legal or otherwise can take their place at the head of the line
Oh the wonderful charitable Obama. He is so charitable with OUR money.
...and the problem with this is..........????????????
This coincides well with free [sic] health care for everyone (regardless of legal status or citizenship).
We have plenty of AIDS cases in the country, and don’t need anymore.
Since you have no problem letting diseased people into the country, would you at least not have a problem with quarantining every single AIDS case in the US to stop it’s spread.
No, it’s just one more thing to add to the national deficit and place even more burdens on understaffed health care facilities.
Plus Washington, Jefferson, Adams, Franklin, etc. all pointing their fingers and hectoring him to do what is right.
Plus all the potential AIDS infected rapists out there who want to take down as many with them as possible.
“At a time when our health Care System is going through an enormously expensive upheavel the last thing we can afford is an open gate policy on people with need of expensive and long term care. Our elderly will be denied care so HIV infected immigrants legal or otherwise can take their place at the head of the line.”
I am willing to listen to your arguments and I can understand your skepticism. I also hate the idea of illegals taking advantage of our system. I am just hoping that this thread doesn’t become a forum to gay bash.
HOW TO START EACH DAY WITH A POSITIVE OUTLOOK
1. Open a new file in your computer.
2. Name it ‘Barack Obama’.
3. Send it to the Recycle Bin.
4. Empty the Recycle Bin.
5. Your PC will ask you: ‘Do you really want to get rid of ‘Barack Obama?’
6. Firmly Click ‘Yes.’
7. Feel better?
GOOD! - Tomorrow we’ll do Nancy Pelosi
Combine HIV with the communist aim of promoting more free sex and we have a really big problem.
Yep. That’s what it says and that’s what he said.
When does the civil disobedience start?
Just curious, but what the Hell ever happened to the Surgeon General? Is she away at a fat farm? Do we still have one? Alien abduction? Anyone know?
That made me feel better just reading it.
haha :D
LMAO...I don’t wanna do Pelosi...sorry. Delete yes, do...not a chance in hell!!!
Yeah maybe we can let all those infected with Ebola in too. No wait! That's not a "gay", politically correct disease. Silly me!
I find it funny everyone ignored the sentence that the process began under George W.
Frankly, the ban should be lifted.
I am not in favor of them coming to us for medical treatment, but I see no reason why they shouldn’t be allowed to travel here just to travel. That’s ridiculous.
Then add that in as a ban. Don’t ban travel outright.
If we treated AIDS like the contagious and life-threatening disease that it is, there would probably be fewer people dying from it.
We always appear helpless when disaster first strikes. The 1998 embassy bomb blast, which resulted in a massive destruction of property and loss of lives, exposed how vulnerable and unprepared we were in dealing with disaster.
When someone dies of Aids, too often we painfully accept such a tragic event as being either an act of witchcraft or an act of God.
And Aids prevention is a foreign language to young women and men in some parts of Kenya. According to a recent study conducted by the National Aids STD Control Programme (NASCOP), 33.3% of girls aged between 15 and 19 years in the western city of Kisumu were HIV positive.
Prostitution
Part of this is due to prostitution. Poverty makes young girls drop out of school and run to the city to work as child minders, where most of them earn between $10 and $15 a month.
Because this money is not enough to provide for her family at home, the girl is driven to prostitution at an early age where she thinks she can earn more money daily.
As Kisumu is a tourist area at the shores of Lake Victoria, girls can find customers day and night - receiving only 50 shillings (less than $1) for each transaction.
Wife inheritance
Wife inheritance - where a widow becomes the property of her late husband's brother - also contributes to the spread of HIV.
After the death of a breadwinner, the widow cannot provide adequate care, food, clothing and above all school fees, so many women see wife inheritance as a solution to financial constraints.
A woman who does not agree to being "inherited" is barred from entering her husband's family homestead. If she dies, her brothers in law are barred by custom from digging her graves.
Male domination
In this male-dominated society, a woman is not expected to participate in important decisions. A woman is considered to have no right even to ask a man to wear a condom, and when it comes to sex it her duty is to oblige. She is used as a sex object, and expected to suffer in silence.
Even when men know the importance of taking precautions, they often cannot afford them. A packet of condoms costs almost the same as half a loaf of bread.
Why wouldn’t it be sickening?
It’s just another way to open the door for open borders. People with AIDS are a financial drain and, that I can think of, no plus side.
Unless the newbies with Aids are going to a Catholic run hospital, I see no reason for them to be allowed entrance.
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Hey, 'socially liberal' genius.....you can't get aids from somebody who isn't in the same country as you....and that was the point of the ban. Maybe we'll just ask the HIV carriers (notice I didn't write queers) to sign a promise not to have sex while they're here, think that will work?
“They’ll want to get “free” health care here. That’s the problem.”
Correction: They WILL get ‘free health care’ here.
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