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Obama Lifts HIV+ Travel Ban

President extends bill funding care for low-income HIV/AIDS patients

By Nick McMaster| Posted Oct 30, 09 1:25 PM CDT|

(Newser) – HIV-positive individuals will no longer be banned from visiting or immigrating to the US, President Obama announced today. The president discussed the revocation of the ban, which has stood since 1987, at today's signing of an extension of the Ryan White HIV/AIDS bill. That bill provides funding for HIV/AIDS testing and treatment for low-income individuals.

"We often speak about AIDS as if it's going on somewhere else," the president said. “But often overlooked is the fact that we face a serious HIV/AIDS epidemic of our own—right here in Washington, DC, and right here in the United States of America." The president applauded George W. Bush and the 2008 Congress for beginning the process of overturning the ban last year, CBS News reports. “We are finishing the job," he said.

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President Barack Obama signs the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Treatment Extension Act of 2009, Friday, Oct. 30, 2009, in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Jeanne White-Ginder, mother of Ryan White holds the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Treatment Extension Act of 2009, after it was signed by President Barack Obama, Friday, Oct. 30, 2009. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

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We talk about reducing the stigma of this disease—yet we've treated a visitor living with it as a threat.
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plstyle
Oct 30, 09 1:28 PM CDT

I don't know about this one... Reply

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davjc09
Oct 30, 09 1:29 PM CDT

Obama praised GWB? Whoa. Excuse me while I go watch the pigs fly across my office window. Reply

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hybrid
Oct 30, 09 1:33 PM CDT

indeed, i thought every dem considered him the devil?

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QueenAlli
Oct 30, 09 2:33 PM CDT

He's praised W before. He's praised his work in Africa and hopes to continue the outreach to the religious community - I forget the name of the program.

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d3wd
Oct 30, 09 3:25 PM CDT

They've been on the same team all along. They pretend to be enemies sometimes, but that is just to keep the people thinking inside the box.(left vs. right) In the meantime, they put the screws to the people.

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thejoint00
Oct 30, 09 8:22 PM CDT

swine flu.

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Fondue
Oct 30, 09 1:43 PM CDT

If it isn't obvious, the bad out weighs the good with GWB by 10:1 ratio. Reply

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davjc09
Oct 30, 09 1:50 PM CDT

10:1? I thought it was closer to 50:1?

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embersyc
Oct 30, 09 1:49 PM CDT

I'm sorry, I'm open minded and everything, but I think its okay to discriminate against people with deadly infectious diseases. Reply

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stacysaw
Oct 30, 09 1:55 PM CDT

all due respect, embers, but the obvious response is "what if it happened to you or your loved ones?" karma can be awfully bitchy with sentiments such as yours. just sayin'.

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plstyle
Oct 30, 09 2:01 PM CDT

yeah, will i say if the HIV was contracted by IV drug use, or if the person had a history of contracting STD's and finally got the HIV, sorry no access. Anything else, well heres were the exceptions come in.

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QueenAlli
Oct 30, 09 2:36 PM CDT

Like stupidity.

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kyleleitch
Oct 30, 09 4:03 PM CDT

Not to mention, of you practice safe sex and safe IV drug use, the chances of infection are considerably lower. We just have such a prudish society that talking about 'sex' and 'drugs' (the bad words) is so taboo that no one gets educated on how to do them safely.

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plstyle
Oct 30, 09 1:54 PM CDT

whats the benefit in allowing everybody with this virus into this country? I mean theres nothing wrong with a couple of restrictions, esp with ones having to do with how the HIV was contracted. The Obama administration gets a thumbs down on this one. Reply

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QueenAlli
Oct 30, 09 2:35 PM CDT

It's HIV not Ebola.

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Cat-Lover
Oct 30, 09 3:11 PM CDT

plstyle: My suggestion to you -- as a means of protecting you from contracting HIV or AIDS is to to keep your genetalia to yourself.

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plstyle
Oct 30, 09 3:47 PM CDT

@ QAlli- no shit

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Snarfeh
Oct 31, 09 1:03 PM CDT

"whats the benefit in allowing everybody with this virus into this country?" It helps us thin the herd of those who are against safe sex and sex education thus enabling the general populace to evolve and progress. We'll miss you...

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plstyle
Oct 31, 09 5:15 PM CDT

@ Snarfeh- aw yes, I'm a big fan of that ideal. When you hear of people dying of stupid shit, i think, oh well, that gets rid of that gene... But i think in this case it doesn't really work. I think you forget that you can get HIV from other ways beside unsafe sex. Namely, blood transfusions and being raped. both ways are things that can happen to ANYONE, and not because the person was careless or uneducated..

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Snarfeh
Nov 1, 09 1:36 AM CST

@pl - No, I didn't forget that at all. I pointedly ignored it because the thinning of the herd of which I speak is of the ignorant, not victims of crime, errors or accidents. The chances of thinning from those things are quite likely lower than the chances of thinning from ignorance. I include the ignorance that results from fear of people who may have been victims themselves of crime, accidents and errors. I would not discriminate against them and instead, welcome them to my country.

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plstyle
Oct 30, 09 1:57 PM CDT

And I didn't think that there were people that actually thought our president could do no wrong, which is evident by all the thumbs down on the criticism. you people are in La la land. Reply

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Fondue
Oct 30, 09 2:08 PM CDT

By some of the responses, we need more HIV/AIDS education in the US. Reply

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Stasis
Oct 30, 09 2:14 PM CDT

Ya think? I figured by now people would realize that HIV isn't an airborne disease. It's not TB. What the f*ck would Jesus do, you a**hat Republicans? Huh? WTF would Jesus do? BTW...I don't know if anyone realizes it or not...but in order for Jesus to have been born, God had sex with a married women! Unbelievable. The God of the Christians screwed a married chick. Damn. He's going to hell.

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myvoice
Oct 30, 09 2:19 PM CDT

Stasis... there was no sex, its called immaculate conception.... still bullshit just the same but i just wanted to inform you.

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Stasis
Oct 30, 09 2:30 PM CDT

@MyVoice - Gotcha...lol. He still knocked up some other dudes wife. Not cool. Very much against the Bro Code...

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cedarkey
Oct 30, 09 2:44 PM CDT

What liberals need is an education in economics, supply & demand, history, logic and common sense!!

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Cat-Lover
Oct 30, 09 3:07 PM CDT

Stasis: Mary was not married when she hatched -- in fact, she never married after either. That "divorce" referred to in the Bi-Bull was a procedure to break an arranged marriage between families. Best sources imply that Joseph left after this scandalous birth and opened an olive grove away from the spotlight.

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dontlikenobody
Oct 30, 09 4:36 PM CDT

Once again, our born-again entrepreneur weighs in with a comment that has absolutely nothing to do with anything but his ego.

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dontlikenobody
Oct 30, 09 4:37 PM CDT

Sorry. that's @cedarkey.

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riffran
Oct 30, 09 10:20 PM CDT

and just WHO is going to pay for all the *ahem* free healthcare for these people who will come in droves to get treatment they couldn't or wouldn't get wherever they came from.....watch the taxes go sky high Reply

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Fondue
Oct 31, 09 10:32 AM CDT

Riff, just worry about treating them. That's your job, right? You being a nurse, you're not in the $500K/year bracket. Even if you're a doctor this shouldn't worry you.

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riffran
Oct 31, 09 7:25 PM CDT

treating is not the problem paying is

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0001tr
Oct 31, 09 7:01 AM CDT

wish instead he had taken the day to Golf or have a domestic violence couple over for beer !!!! Reply

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Nixon
Nov 1, 09 11:12 AM CST

This is really going to far with this anti-discrimination. Obama says that the threat is based on fear and not fact. Thats a load of rubbish, you have an obligation to protect the existing people in the country. Yes HIV is not an airborne disease but it does spread through needle use, sex etc. What would be the odds of someone who is infected spreading the disease to someone else and giving them a death sentance, not to high really. Its a scary world when political correctness gets in the way of peoples lives. Reply

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Snarfeh
Nov 1, 09 3:11 PM CST

The degree by which it spreads and how much it will increase is an nth, if that. Our country drowns in ignorance on this matter and those who fear this have only themselves to fear. Be smart regarding sex, educate your children on safe sex instead of hiding your head in the sand and your chances of being a victim of an accident or error will be the only possibilities by which you can get HIV. That risk already exists with or without allowing entry into this country of people who already have it. That some tired employee somewhere will make a mistake causing you to contract it has nothing to do with this and can happen regardless. Some of you act as if billions of HIV infected people are suddenly going to rush to the U.S. Who the fuck would rush over here with our standard of living? Who the fuck would rush over from a country that already provides health care to its citizens? You fear mongers are far more likely to be the death of us all.

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Nixon
Nov 2, 09 3:40 AM CST

Snarfeh, this has nothing to do with fear just a simple awareness and understanding of the enviroment we live in. Im not here to promote hatred and ignorance i want to make sure that people arnt blinded by political correctness. There probably isnt going to be huge numbers of people with HIV rushing to come to the US but there will no doubt be quite a few. You need to consider the possibility of the virus spreading and compare it to the humans rights issue. Alot of people dont use condoms and an increase in the people with HIV will undoubtably increase the spread. However hopefully the research is sound and the increase is insignificant. Also there is no need to swear it just districts from the reasonable point you made. People should discuss issues to broaden their views and undertstand what other people think and why. Personal attacks just abusive language just cause people to narrow thier views and consider the other side of the argument to be fools. Also Snarfeh if your unhappy with the standard of living you experience in the US leave go somewhere else. Its one of the liberties we enjoy in the states and its called freedom. No one is making you stay so if ur unhappy in this country leave. The majority of the worlds population have it so much worse, learn to appreciate what youve got.

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Snarfeh
Nov 2, 09 9:19 AM CST

And that is why I was discussing it. I still think the issue that so many fear is so small as to be almost not there. We *already* spread the disease from our own ignorance of safe sex and drug use. I stand by my statement that any increase will be so small as to be all but insignificant. The saucy language I use is irrelevant other than for a feeble attempt on someone else's part to draw attention to something other than my point and to somehow humble me. I humble myself when necessary and it ain't necessary in this case. It is needless fear. I welcome them to my country, the land of the almost free and once upon a time, of the brave. Reply

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