CaribWorldNews.com - Global Caribbean Daily Newswire:
"United Nations Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, has congratulated United States President Barack Obama for lifting the travel ban to the U.S. for people living with HIV.
Obama`s announcement late last week overturns a policy that had been in place since 1987, and it came as he signed the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Treatment Extension Act of 2009, which has provided treatment and support services to people living with HIV since 1990. Obama made the announcement in signing an extension of the the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Treatment Act, which provides for education, prevention and treatment programs for U.S. HIV patients. He said his administration will publish a final rule today, Nov. 2, that eliminates the travel ban effective just after the first of 2010.
`I urge all other countries with such restrictions to take steps to remove them at the earliest,` Ban, who has made removing the stigma and discrimination faced by those living with HIV a personal issue, said.
Almost 60 nations impose some form of travel restrictions on people with HIV."
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Monday, November 2, 2009
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