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Advocates Updates
- Job opening: International Policy Manager
- Job opening: New Media Manager
- VICTORY: HIV Travel Ban Overturned
Restrictions on travel into the US based on HIV status have been lifted.
- Fight the last-ditch attempt to restore abstinence-only funding
Tell your Senator to vote against the Hatch Amendment!
Publications
New Publications:
Responsible Education About Life (REAL) Act
- Maine Voters Repeal Law Allowing Gay Marriage
(New York Times)
In a stinging setback for the national gay-rights movement, Maine voters narrowly decided to repeal the state’s new law allowing same-sex marriage
- Democrats Near Deal on Abortion Coverage AIDS: Panel Warns That Without New Direction, Epidemic Will Remain Out of Control at 50 (New York Times)
Struggling to finish their big health care legislation, House Democratic leaders signaled Tuesday that they were prepared to make several changes to the bill to satisfy abortion opponents
- AIDS: Panel Warns That Without New Direction, Epidemic Will Remain Out of Control at 50
Unless there is a drastic change in approach, the AIDS epidemic will still be out of control on its 50th
anniversary in 2031
- China's Economy Powering Syphilis Spread
China is experiencing an epidemic of syphilis
- Consumer Reports Puts 20 Condoms to the Test
In the heat of the moment when most couples use a condom, they might not be thinking about how their choice of contraceptive might work when inflated with
25 liters of air
- Illinois teen abortion law delayed for at least a day
The fate of a law that would require physicians in Illinois to notify a parent or guardian when a girl 17 or younger seeks an abortion remained in limbo
by Emily Bridges, Director of Public Information Services
Through YOUR efforts, including lobby visits and hundreds of emails and phone calls to Congressional offices, the HIV travel ban has been lifted!
The travel ban on people living with HIV and AIDS was a discriminatory policy maintained by the United States government that automatically denied entry into the United States to non-U.S. citizens otherwise eligible for entry on the basis of their HIV-positive status. If a non-citizen was found traveling into the U.S. with HIV medication, they were arrested and placed on a flight home.
The US’s travel ban was controversial because there is no scientific or public health rationale from barring those with HIV from entering the country, since the virus is not spread by casual contact. The ban also meant that the important biennial International AIDS Conference could not be held in the United States. The U.S. was one of only about a dozen countries with these regulations.
