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Bush proposal for HIV-positive visitors makes a bad rule worse

The Bush administration's proposed rule for waivers allowing some people with HIV to visit the United States is even more restrictive, burdensome, and arbitrary than the rule it is intended to replace, according to the HIV Medicine Association. Furthermore, it does nothing to address a fundamental flaw in U.S. policy barring people with HIV from entering the United States.

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