Article: SENATE PASSES KERRY-SMITH REPEAL OF HIV TRAVEL BAN

Article: House Votes to Uphold HIV Immigration Ban
NPR Morning Edition;  March 12, 1993 ;     657 words ......campaign, Bill Clinton vowed to lift the immigration ban on people infected with the AIDS virus...Congress have now voted to uphold the immigration ban. NPR's Chitra Ragavan reports. CHITRA...esident's action. They did so by adding the immigration ban as an amendment to a bill that ...

Article: Rep. Lee Introduces HIV Nondiscrimination in Travel, Immigration Act
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  August 11, 2007 ;     700+ words ......to 10 days.(2) The HIV travel and immigration ban was originally implemented...proposed ending the HIV travel and immigration ban by delisting HIV as...and Sudan.(8) The HIV travel and immigration ban impacts thousands of...

Article: Simon, Moseley-Braun Erred in Vote on AIDS
Chicago Sun-Times;  February 26, 1993 ;     506 words ......question. Clinton's proposal to lift the immigration ban on HIV carriers is political folly...more irresponsible than to lift the immigration ban on persons with the AIDS virus. At...the administration from lifting the immigration ban on AIDS carriers. The Senate vote...

Article: . . .And the need for fair play on AIDS
The Boston Globe;  July 31, 1992 ;     231 words ......Commission on AIDS. Yet Bush fails to see the folly in the immigration ban vis-a-vis Johnson's condition. The restriction not only...AIDS Institute and others across the world balked at the immigration ban. The United States is one of only four countries that have...

Article: House Backs HIV Immigration Ban; Nonbinding Resolution at Odds With Clinton's Campaign Pledge
The Washington Post;  March 12, 1993 ;     440 words ......continued ban on permanent immigration by people infected with the virus that causes AIDS. House support for maintaining the immigration ban, 356 to 58, surpassed the Senate's lopsided vote, 76 to 23, for a Republican- sponsored amendment to continue the Reagan-e...

Article: Sen. Kerry Introduces HIV Nondiscrimination in Travel and Immigration Act
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  December 27, 2007 ;     700+ words ......D-Massachusetts, has introduced the HIV Nondiscrimination in Travel and Immigration Act of 2007 (S. 2486...remove a provision from the Immigration and Nationality Act that...Nondiscrimination in Travel and Immigration Act of 2007S. 2486To remove a provision from the Immigration and ...

Article: FED: Banned historian seeking loophole entry to Australia
AAP General News (Australia);  February 1, 2000 ;     99 words ......FED: Banned historian seeking loophole entry to Australia Holocaust revisionist historian DAVID IRVING is set to skirt an immigration ban imposed by the Australian Government by using visitation rights to see his daughter in Brisbane. The Australian newspaper...

Article: The Ban Makes No Sense
The Washington Post;  February 19, 1993 ;     700+ words ......bill for the National Institutes of Health maintaining the immigration ban. Under the terms of the 1990 act, Congress directed the...she has citizen children to support. Because of the HIV immigration ban, our government has denied her permanent residency and permission...

Article: Tonga reinforces ban on Michael Field.
PAC - Pacific Islands Broadcasting Association;  March 15, 2005 ;     237 words ...15 MARCH 2005 AUCKLAND (Pacnews) --- A report from New Zealand says the Tongan Government has reinforced an immigration ban on veteran Pacific journalist, Michael Field. On the other hand, the office of the Tongan Prime Minister was unaware of...

Article: VOA NEWS: PEPFAR ADVOCATES HOPE 2008 LEGISLATION BRINGS NEW UNDERSTANDING OF PATIENTS' RIGHTS
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  July 21, 2008 ;     700+ words ......mediaassets/english/2008_07/Audio/mp3/LESSER_HIV_TRAVEL_BAN_REPEAL_REACT_21July08.mp3 Immigration...mediaassets/english/2008_07/Audio/mp3/LESSER_HIV_TRAVEL_BAN_REPEAL_REACT_21July08.mp3 Immigration...mediaassets/english/2008_07/Audio/ra/LESSER_HIV_TRAVEL_BAN_REPEAL_REACT_21July08.ra ...

Article: More gays seeking US asylum
The Boston Globe;  November 7, 1992 ;     700+ words ......Others believe the November 1990 lifting of the federal immigration ban on admitting lesbians and gays into this country opened...Barney Frank (D-Mass.), who was instrumental in getting the immigration ban repealed. There has been some recognition that homosexuals...

Article: Samoa Alters Rule in Bias Controversy
The Washington Post;  December 20, 2002 ;     305 words ......hastily revised a five-month-old security order yesterday that had angered Arab American groups and U.S. lawmakers with an immigration ban on travelers of "Middle Eastern descent." After discussions with officials at the Interior Department, which oversees U...

Article: Australian PM supports immigration ban for HIV sufferers
Belfast Telegraph;  April 13, 2007 ;     78 words ...Asked about the matter today, Mr Howard said the Government was investigating the possibility of tightening existing restrictions to prevent the arrival of HIV sufferers. He said there may be humanitarian considerations in certain cases and he would like to take "more counsel" on the issue before

Article: Administration urged to end HIV travel ban
Call & Post;  September 24, 2008 ;     573 words ......act quickly to remove HIV from the list of communicable diseases of public health significance and end the HIV travel and immigration ban," Sens. John Kerry, D-Mass., and Gordon Smith, R-Ore., main backers of the measure in the Senate, wrote...