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US Must End Ban on HIV-Positive Immigrants

Andrew Sullivan uses own case as example

By Jonas Oransky, Newser Staff

Posted May 14, 2008 6:06 PM CDT

(Newser) – The US is one of only 12 countries (including Sudan, Moldova and Libya) that flouts UN law by barring HIV-positive visitors or immigrants—and the restriction must end, writes Andrew Sullivan in the Washington Post. The HIV-positive Sullivan, a senior editor at Atlantic magazine, remains... Read full story »

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