"Foreigners With AIDS to Be Permitted Limited Entry to U.S."

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"Foreigners With AIDS to Be Permitted Limited Entry to U.S."

Washington Post (05/19/89), P. A20
Boodman, Sandra

Abstract: Regulations governing the admittance of foreign travelers with AIDS into the U.S. will be relaxed by the Immigration and Naturalization Service. The new rules, which supersede a 1987 regulation recommended by Sen. Jesse Helms (R-N.C.), will allow visitors with AIDS to enter the U.S. to attend meetings, visit relatives, or receive medical treatment. The change in the regulations were prompted by the case last month of a Dutch visitor with AIDS who was jailed when he tried to enter the U.S. for an AIDS conference. Some AIDS activists have called the revision "inadequate" and "a fraud", but others say it is a step in the right direction. The jailing of Hans Paul Verhoef brought a storm of protest from public health authorities, congressional officials, and gay rights activists. The regulation's revision comes three weeks before the start of the Fifth International AIDS Conference in Montreal, at which activists had vowed to protest if the policy was not changed.

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