| The Department of Health and Human Services has | | | | this list as well as the list of communicable diseases |
| lifted the HIV travel ban that prevented people | | | | of public health significance has been issued by the |
| infected with the Human Immuno Deficiency Virus | | | | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of the |
| (HIV) from entering the United States. Earlier, visitors | | | | Department of Health and Human Services. |
| and immigrants to USA who had tested positive for | | | | Various officials have supported this action saying |
| HIV were barred entry, provided a waiver was | | | | that it’s high time one ends the social stigma |
| granted by the Department of Homeland Security. | | | | attached to this disease. It certainly does not |
| Applicants for USA Immigration and Visas were | | | | deserve forbidding entry to the country and allowing |
| subject to a list of medical examinations, including HIV | | | | an infected person into the country should not pose |
| infection examination. A final rule to delete it from | | | | a health risk to the nation. |