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HIV/AIDS travel and immigration restrictions lifted in the United States

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Restrictions limiting individuals with HIV/AIDS from entering the United States were repealed, effective Jan. 4, 2010.

An important result of the lifting of the ban will be that the meeting of the International AIDS Society will take place in the United States in 2012. The meeting has not been held here since the laws took effect.

The statutes were enacted in the early 1990s. As of the end of 2009, the United States was one of just 12 countries which continued to maintain immigration and travel restrictions on individuals with HIV/AIDS.

President Obama said that the exclusions were not compatible with the leadership role the United States has taken in the fight against HIV/AIDS worldwide. In October 2009, the president said that the ban was “rooted in fear rather than fact. We lead the world when it comes to helping stem the AIDS pandemic, yet we are one of only a dozen countries that still bars people with HIV from entering our own country.”