HIV travel ban may be lifted for infected visitors

Foreigners who have HIV would be allowed to travel and immigrate to the United States under a plan by federal health officials to lift a 22-year ban on infected visitors that critics say was unnecessary from the start.

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HIV-positive man sentenced 35 years for spitting at officer

An HIV-positive man convicted of spitting into the eye and mouth of a Dallas police officer has been sentenced to 35 years in prison.

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For threatening to kill with his illness then biting a Miami cop, HIV-positive drifter Johnson Jamerson will serve 15 years in prison, a judge ruled Wednesday.

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Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil: Mexico responds to A.I.D.S. epidemic

A.I.D.S. is on the rise. With no cure on the horizon and very limited access to programs and medication, Mexico is facing a crisis.

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A South Florida man says he was denied a hair transplant because he is HIV positive.

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South African opposition leader Helen Zille has been labelled a racist by the governing ANC's Youth League for a lacerating attack on the president. The Western Cape premier was quoted by the Sowetan newspaper as saying President Jacob Zuma had put his three wives at risk of con …

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A man from President Obama's hometown of Chicago has been arrested for allegedly sending Obama and his staff envelopes containing HIV-infected blood, in the hopes of killing or harming them.

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A more effective TB vaccine may help curtail the global spread of the disease, especially in HIV-positive people, for whom tuberculosis is the leading cause of death worldwide.

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An HIV-positive man convicted of spitting into the eye and mouth of a Dallas police officer has been sentenced to 35 years in prison. See more irresistible headlines  

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Twelve countries ban HIV-positive visitors, nonimmigrants and immigrants from their territory: Armenia, Brunei, Iraq, Libya, Moldova, Oman, Qatar, the Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Sudan and . . . the United States.

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In the impoverished mountain kingdom of Lesotho, nearly one in four adults is HIV positive, according to a 2006 report from UNAIDS. Completely surrounded by South Africa, this little-known country of 2 million people has one of the highest HIV infection rates in the world.

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Morrison returning, says he is HIV negative after misdiagnosis

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A refugee who knew he was HIV positive when he raped a teenager without using a condom has been jailed indefinitely. Zimbabwean Gabriel Vengesai, 45, also had consensual unprotected sex with a 14-year-old girl who bore him a child, Winchester Crown Court heard.

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