US HIV Immigration Ban Lifted as Bush Signs New Deal on Fighting AIDS
US President Bush has signed a new law lifting a ban on HIV positive people from entering the United States and signed new legislation to fight Aids in the developing world.
There will be a rise in the budget to fight against Aids, malaria and tuberculosis of $15bn (£7.5bn) to $48bn (£24bn).
The law also removes a requirement for a third of the Aids fight to be targeted at abstaining from sex rather than through medical research or distribution.
As he signed the bill, Mr Bush said: “It’s going to save millions of people. This bill embodies the extraordinary compassion of the American people. We are a compassionate nation. And that’s what this bill says loud and clear. I want to thank everybody who’s helped make this bill possible.”
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