China Ends Its HIV Travel Ban

The world gets saner:

"The ban was imposed in the 1980s because of a lack of knowledge and is now obsolete and discriminatory," said He Xiong, deputy head of the Beijing centre for disease prevention and control. "HIV/Aids cases have been seen in all of China's provinces and a travel ban on foreigners will not help improve local public health," he said.

Obama helped. The gays should remember that among his substantive acts to help those with HIV - and the gay men disproportionately affected by the now defunct US ban.

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