Hello everyone,
I found some interesting information on immigration laws for the HIV positive that I would like to share. According to the national immigration project website, individuals cannot be deported for being HIV positive or having an AIDS diagnosis. The Department of Homeland Security try to keep the infected people away from the United States except the United States citizens and the lawful residents. People who wish to enter the United States for visiting purposes and are HIV positive can be denied to enter because HIV considered is a "communicable disease of public health significance". People who wish to move to the U.S. are required to test for HIV infection. Although the Department of Homeland Security cannot change the present immigration status for an individual, it can definitely deny the desired status.
I also read about the AIDS Committee of London that works in partnership with people for support and education on HIV/AIDS. A few of their goals include increasing HIV awareness in the community, thereby decreasing the number of new HIV infections and increasing the quality of life for people infected with HIV or the people who live with these people. The website for the AIDS Committee of London provides with all the information and their support for the community.
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Oooohh! I didn't even think of that topic, but it is a very interesting one. I guess that the laws that are in place are there to prevent us from just simply deporting people for having a condition, otherwise the government can just force everyone to get tested and send them somewhere. (I'm sure it wouldn't as simple as that...)
ReplyDeleteI am surprised though that we can deny someone entrance for simply having HIV, and super surprise no one has brought that up as discrimination... In a way, it makes total sense to me that it is of "public health significance"... but in another way, I wonder if it's actually discrimination...
I agree with the way the Department of Homeland Security handles people who are trying to visit the U.S. and are HIV positive. Why would you allow a person who is infected to enter a country and spread a very deadly disease. I'm sorry for the person who has this disease and want to travel the world and visit places but he or she would have to understand the consequences if they were to spread it. With a illness this serious, the rules ought to be strict but not in a discriminating way. The Department of Homeland Security need to assure the safety and well-being of all U.S. citizens because if anybody wanted to do anything they want then every country in the world would have high rates of illness among it's people. That's why certain areas in the world have higher prevelance of illnesses because the government try to contain these illnesses from spreading.
ReplyDeleteYour blog on immigration was interesting, but that was only part of your requirement. What happened to your weekly blog. You are to comment on your growth during the semester, write a short Did You Know and if necessary an add on. All of those are suppose to be in the same blog.
ReplyDeleteWhere did you get your information for this blog. You need to tell people so that they can continue to read up on what you posted.
The other countries that ban visits by people living with the HIV besides the U.S. are Brunei, Egypt, Iraq, Yemen, Malaysia, Oman, Qatar, Singapore, Sudan, South Korea, Tunisia, Turks & Caicos Islands and the United Arab Emirates.[Thebody.com]
The travel ban was supposed to be lifted in July, 2008 and yet there are still people being refused visa to visit the US.
The first International AIDS Conference was held in Atlanta, in 1985. The last time it was held in the US was in 1990 and that was the 6th International conference. It never returned to the US because of the travel ban. I remember the organization saying that the conference held in San Francisco would be the last held on US soil until the government dropped the travel ban. It has been all over the world, moving to every two years in 1994. In 2008 the conference was held in Mexico, still to far away for many to participate. In 2010 they will be in Vienna, Austria. Since these conferences are assigned a host country many years in advance, it could be that the US won't get a shot at it until 2020.