« Time Suck is funny
Deconstructing the Japanese housing statistics »

Petition to end HIV ban

July 31st, 2009 by Roy Berman		 Mutantfrog

I’ve mentioned the US’s HIV travel/immigration ban before, and Andrew Sullivan reminds me that there are still two weeks left to sign the public comment petition, in advance of what will hopefully be the final stage of the repeal of this severely out-dated regulation. Surprisingly, I don’t see any wording that the petition is limited to US citizens as I would expect, so feel free to jump in and add your comments. I had to submit to an HIV text when applying for my Taiwan visa back in 2005 (I think they’ve eliminated it since then) and found it pretty invasive (obviously I was negative since I got the visa) and look forward to this restriction being lifted on would-be US residents.

This entry was posted on Friday, July 31st, 2009 at 11:42 am and is filed under Health, Immigration, Law, The United States, Travel. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

Related Posts

  • Dissolving a Local Assembly
  • Justice denied: The evil Adam Richards gets a plea bargain
  • Protecting the mentally disabled under Japanese civil law
  • Behind the Deletion of 30,000 Japanese videos from Youtube
  • Amusingly bad editing

    • 2 Responses to 'Petition to end HIV ban'

    1. John Fenwood Says:
      August 1st, 2009 at 8:02 pm

      We implore the Department of Health and Human Services to remove HIV from the list of communicable diseases of public health significance and urge for the issue the final regulation as soon as possible. Help the Administration end this unjust, unnecessary policy by signing the petition today to end the HIV travel ban!

      Please sign the petition:
      http://www.my-cause.com/petition_to_end_the_us_hiv_travel_ban

    2. Roy Berman Says:
      August 2nd, 2009 at 4:17 am

      John, I don’t mean to be rude, but what is the point of signing your petition instead of just supporting the larger one I linked to?

    Leave a Reply

    We are currently using the Akismet spam filter, which sometimes eats legitimate comments, particularly those containing URLs. If you are having trouble getting a comment up, try splitting the URL into two parts, or failing that, email one of us. Note that we only deliberately block comments that appear to be spam.