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US considers lifting travel ban on people with HIV-AIDS

Recovered from FSRN’s earlier site via the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. The audio here is FSRN’s own production recording. Originally published August 20, 2009.

Several members of Congress sent a letter to Health Secretary Kathleen Sebelius earlier this week calling for the removal of the US travel ban on those living with HIV and AIDS. The US is currently one of only 12 countries in the world who keep people with HIV/AIDS from entering the country.  But the letter could be a sign of change.  FSRN’s Matt Pearson reports.