CLINIC wrote a letter to Dept. of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius supporting the proposed rule which would remove HIV from the definition of communicable diseases of public health significance from the Federal Regulations, and thereby also removing HIV as grounds for inadmissibility to the US.
A copy of the letter.
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Dear Secretary Sebelius:
We write as religious institutions and faith-based organizations with extensive experience in the response to HIV and AIDS throughout the world. We applaud the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) proposed rule published in the Federal Register on July 2, 2009, which removes Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Infection from the definition of communicable diseases of public health significance from Title 42, part 34, of the Code of Federal Regulations.
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