“It’s ridiculous that for over 20 years people living with HIV have been banned from entering the US simply because of a medical condition. Removing the ban is long overdue and we congratulate the US Government on seeing economic and medical sense. Terrence Higgins Trust and many others have campaigned against the ban since it was introduced. Blanket entry bans have no justification on public health grounds and only increase stigma. We hope other countries with similar bans in place will now remove them too.”
— Lisa Power, Head of Policy at Terrence Higgins Trust, on the end — after 22 years — of the ban on HIV-positive people entering the United States
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