China lifts ban on HIV-positive visitors

[ccharles000]

The Chinese government has announced it has overturned the ban on HIV-positive visitors entering the country.

The ban was introduced in 1989, although China has temporarily lifted it for major events in the past, such as the1990 Beijing Asian Games and the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

The news was announced in a statement on a government website yesterday and the change also applies to sufferers of leprosy.

China follows the US, which overturned its ban on HIV-positive visitors in January.

The change means that now, entry is barred only to people with infectious tuberculosis, serious mental disorders and “infectious diseases which could possibly greatly harm the public health.”

http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2010/04/28/china-lifts-ban-on-hiv-positive-visitors/

[existentialist]

1. Someone in China understands that they have enough

HIV positive native Chinese that attempting to enforce a quarantine is pointless.

[David__77]

2. Three months after the US did so...

Both represent progress.