[quote]The US has lifted a 22-year immigration ban which has stopped anyone with HIV/Aids from entering the country.
President Obama said the ban was not compatible with US plans to be a leader in the fight against the disease. The new rules come into force on Monday and the US plans to host a bi-annual global HIV/Aids summit for the first time in 2012. The ban was imposed at the height of a global panic about the disease at the end of the 1980s.
It put the US in a group of just 12 countries, also including Libya and Saudi Arabia, that excluded anyone suffering from HIV/Aids. The BBC's Charles Scanlon, in Miami, says that improving treatments and evolving public perceptions have helped to bring about the change. Rachel Tiven, head of the campaign group Immigration Equality, told the BBC that the step was long overdue.
"The 2012 World Aids Conference, due to be held in the United States, was in jeopardy as a result of the restrictions. It's now likely to go ahead as planned," she said. In October, President Obama said the entry ban had been "rooted in fear rather than fact". He said: "We lead the world when it comes to helping stem the Aids pandemic - yet we are one of only a dozen countries that still bar people with HIV from entering our own country." [/quote]
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Source: [url]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8438865.stm[/url]
So America is getting walking timebombs which pose a threat to national health and security. If anything it could make the HIV problem worse for the US, Good job Obama, i hope you get HIV.
What the shit, even though I know people with HIV/Aids are people too, this is just dumb.
[QUOTE=ole johan;19424169]What the shit, even though I know people with HIV/Aids are people too, this is just dumb.[/QUOTE]
It's like saying, we are developing A swine flu cure, then saying that all swine flu people can walk around and spread it. Making the problem worse.
The OP's avatar fits perfectly with the story.
"Let's do the absolute worst possible thing to help out AIDS/HIV Prevalence in the USA."
[QUOTE=Bulaba0;19424200]"Let's do the absolute worst possible thing to help out AIDS/HIV Prevalence in the USA."[/QUOTE]
No. That would be banning contraception.
[QUOTE=Killergam;19424138]The BBC's Charles Scanlon, in Miami, says that improving treatments [B]and evolving public perceptions[/B] have helped to bring about the change.[/QUOTE]
I don't know what it looks like over there in america, but most german kids are too fucking dumb to even spell AIDS or HIV. They don't know how to wear a condom etc. I hope all the people too dumb to recognize the thread emitting from this disease will die because of it.
It's a sad day for America when we have to open our country to foreign aids.
You guys act like all HIV/AIDs patients rape people or something. Christ.
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[QUOTE=lmaoboat;19424276]It's a sad day for America when we have to open our country to foreign aids.[/QUOTE]
You motherfucker.
[QUOTE=lmaoboat;19424276]It's a sad day for America when we have to open our country to foreign aids.[/QUOTE]
:golfclap:
Also, OP, walking "timebombs"? What the hell are you even talking about?
[QUOTE=Doug52392;19424193]The OP's avatar fits perfectly with the story.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, its gay
Just don't stick your pee pee in any hole you see, is it that hard?
[QUOTE=johanz;19424777]Just don't stick your pee pee in any hole you see, is it that hard?[/QUOTE]
Aren't there other ways of it spreading?
(sorry if this post is misinformed)
[QUOTE=Killergam;19424191]It's like saying, we are developing A swine flu cure, then saying that all swine flu people can walk around and spread it. Making the problem worse.[/QUOTE]
No. You don't get HIV/AIDS by someone coughing on you.
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[QUOTE=Epidemick;19424815]Aren't there other ways of it spreading?
(sorry if this post is misinformed)[/QUOTE]
Dirty needles, swapping blood etc.
Otherwise I don't think so but I could be wrong
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[QUOTE=Bulaba0;19424200]"Let's do the absolute worst possible thing to help out AIDS/HIV Prevalence in the USA."[/QUOTE]
Think he's more interested in the global picture, not just the USA
[QUOTE=Epidemick;19424752]Yeah, its gay[/QUOTE]
You do know that straight people have almost the same if not a higher chance to contract HIV/AIDS.
Aslong as they aren't coughing up blood onto random people they should be fine.
[QUOTE=Epidemick;19424815]Aren't there other ways of it spreading?
(sorry if this post is misinformed)[/QUOTE]
Blood contact or sex, that's all I know, maybe there is more.
[QUOTE=Kyle902;19424936]You do know that straight people have almost the same if not a higher chance to contract HIV/AIDS.[/QUOTE]
Pretty sure this isn't true as you have a greater risk of having/recieving small cuts in your asshole during anal sex which can bleed
damn , only black people would lift it (and sarah palin)
Wow I didn't even know that ban existed, that's harsh and goes against everything we as a country stand for.
:downs: That damn Obama he's doomed all of America now they'll be an AIDS epidemic just like in all the other countries that allowed HIV/AIDS patients to move about.
I swear i read this here earlier.
We had a ban on immigration like that?
Wow, I didn't know. I need to keep up with current events more.
[QUOTE=Acolyt3;19425615]I swear i read this here earlier.[/QUOTE]
Pretty sure there was a thread saying he was questioned about the ban or said he'd remove it or something
[QUOTE=Killergam;19424138]
So America is getting walking timebombs which pose a threat to national health and security.[/QUOTE]
I don't think you understand how AIDS works
[QUOTE=TH89;19426090]I don't think you understand how AIDS works[/QUOTE]
dude aids makes you explode
shit
wow i didn't even see this thread when i was checking if it was already posted
He needs to lift the trade embargo of Cuba.
[QUOTE=Aurora93;19426101]shit
wow i didn't even see this thread holy shit[/QUOTE]
Yeah your thread got lock raped bro
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[QUOTE=Wakka;19426103]He needs to lift the trade embargo of Cuba.[/QUOTE]
who gives a fuck about cuba other than you you fucking communist bastard
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