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Article: INS May Ease AIDS Ban for Gay Games
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- February 25, 1994
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The Clinton administration is moving to waive the rule barring
people with the AIDS virus from entering the United States to allow
HIV-infected foreigners to attend the Gay Games in New York in June.
Duke Austin, a spokesman for the Immigration and Naturalization
Service, said his agency will draw up visa guidelines.
"The State Department has asked us to develop some options on
how we would admit these people on some sort of broad waiver of
their inadmissibility," Austin said.
U.S. policy is to deny visas to anyone with a "communicable
disease of public health significance," which includes HIV, Austin
said.
That restriction has drawn fire from AIDS activists, and it led
planners to ...