Posted on 12/03/2006 9:29:18 PM PST by janetgreen
President Bush will ease a long-standing rule barring HIV-positive people from entering the United States without a special waiver, a ban long criticized by human rights groups.
Because of the rule, organizers of the biannual International AIDS Conferences have not held a gathering in the United States since 1990, when San Francisco hosted the event.
The White House chose Friday, World AIDS Day, to announce that Bush would issue an executive order allowing HIV-positive people to enter the United States on short-term tourist or business visas without having to seek special permission.
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Are you willing to be infected with it? If so, I think you should do it and then let us know how you do. I'm interested in your results.
susie
He fooled me.
I voted for him TWICE and did volunteer work to help get him elected.
JG ... I am severely over JR Bush and figure he was wet nursed early on by an illegal Mexican nanny!
Well, I would say something but then I would be accussed of bashing the President.
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