U.S. Ban on HIV-Positive Travel Lifted, First Foreigners Arrive
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Updated: 8:23 PM Jan 13, 2010
U.S. Ban on HIV-Positive Travel Lifted, First Foreigners Arrive
NEW YORK (AP)
An AIDS activist from the Netherlands is among the first HIV-positive foreigners to enter the United States since the Obama administration repealed a 22-year-old travel ban.
Posted: 11:54 AM Jan 8, 2010
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An AIDS activist from the Netherlands is among the first HIV-positive foreigners to enter the United States since the Obama administration repealed a 22-year-old travel ban.

Clemens Ruland arrived Thursday at New York's JFK airport for a one-week vacation. The psychiatric nurse tells reporters he's thrilled that the ban has been lifted.

Ruland says, "People with HIV are not a threat to anybody, so there is no reason to exclude them."

Officials say a Canadian citizen who traveled to Buffalo Monday was the first person to cross the U.S. border on the day the repeal took effect.

Opponents of the ban said it hurt public health policy and was discriminatory.

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Posted by: Frank Location: Harrisonburg on Jan 8, 2010 at 01:37 PM

WHAT are you thinking MR. OBAMA????? Do ya think maybe someone with a tad more brains than you put the ban on AIDS travel restrictions? And SOMEONE FROM THE NETHERLANDS????? JC, my friend {??} what is with you???
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