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Wednesday, July 30

Bush signs bill that triples worldwide healthcare funding and drops HIV travel ban

Source: BBC News , Reuters , AIDS Healthcare Foundation press release , AFP President Bush signed a new law today that triples America's budget for fighting Aids and other diseases in Africa and the Caribbean and which also lifts a ban on HIV-infected people from entering the US. The measure increases...

Posted to Qnews (Weblog) by NewsEditor on 07-30-2008
Saturday, July 26

Surrey man turned away at Blaine crossing cheers lifting of US HIV travel ban

Source: Surrey Now , Xtra West Martin Rooney of Surrey was turned back at the U.S. border for being HIV-positive. photo by Brian Howell via Surrey News An HIV-positive man from Surrey, BC who was denied entry to the US last year at the Blaine, WA border crossing cheered a Senate vote last week that is...

Posted to Qblog (Weblog) by external blog Qnews : nw:gaynews on 07-26-2008
Saturday, July 26

Surrey man turned away at Blaine crossing cheers lifting of US HIV travel ban

Source: Surrey Now , Xtra West Martin Rooney of Surrey was turned back at the U.S. border for being HIV-positive. photo by Brian Howell via Surrey Now An HIV-positive man from Surrey, BC who was denied entry to the US last year at the Blaine, WA border crossing cheered a Senate vote last week that is...

Posted to Qnews (Weblog) by NewsEditor on 07-26-2008
Sunday, July 20

Senate votes to end HIV travel ban; triple AIDS spending

Source: TIME , AFP , Daily Dish , Associated Press , Seattle Times , IAS press release , Xtra.ca A two-decade ban on people with HIV visiting or immigrating to the United States will end soon through a Senate bill aimed at fighting AIDS and other diseases in Africa and other poor areas of the world....

Posted to Qnews (Weblog) by NewsEditor on 07-20-2008
Tuesday, April 15

Gay activists ask for right to be blood donors, but Scottish government not ready to agree

Source: BBC News , Glasgow Evening Times , Press Association Gay activists today demanded of Scottish government chiefs that they be allowed to donate blood. Gay and bisexual men in the UK are banned from giving blood because transfusion chiefs believe it poses an increased HIV risk. Campaigners appeared...

Posted to Qnews (Weblog) by NewsEditor on 04-15-2008
Friday, March 21

Gay porn king sparks controversy at Stanford, but for politics, not his films

Source: New Republic , Stanford Daily Porn star and producer Michael Lucas spoke at Stanford last month about safe sex, but his neocon political views generated controversy both before and during the talk Stanford Daily photo by Mehmet Inonu About 50 students gathered last month at Stanford for a lively...

Posted to Qnews (Weblog) by NewsEditor on 03-21-2008
Wednesday, March 19

Bill repealing HIV travel ban advances in Congress

Source: Washington Blade The influential Senate Foreign Relations Committee last week voted 18-3 to approve legislation calling for repeal of a controversial travel and immigration ban on people who test positive for HIV. A bipartisan group of senators backing efforts to eliminate the HIV ban added language...

Posted to Qnews (Weblog) by NewsEditor on 03-19-2008
Tuesday, March 11

Senate may use AIDS funding bill to lift HIV travel ban

Source: Associated Press and BBSNews Gay-rights activists are hoping to use a global AIDS relief bill supported by the Bush administration to repeal a 15-year-old law restricting travel to the U.S. by HIV-positive people. Activists oppose the near-ban as discriminatory since HIV is the only medical condition...

Posted to Qnews (Weblog) by NewsEditor on 03-11-2008
Wednesday, February 27

California county opposes FDA's gay blood ban

Source: San Jose Mercury News , Bay Area Indymedia The Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday to oppose the Food and Drug Administration's lifetime ban on blood donations by gay men and to encourage their federal lobbyists to work to overturn the ban. Supervisors said they...

Posted to Qnews (Weblog) by NewsEditor on 02-27-2008
Wednesday, December 12

Ryan White's mother hopes to discuss AIDS with Mike Huckabee

Source: The Advocate Jeanne White-Ginder, the mother of Ryan White -- who attracted nationwide attention after contracting HIV from a tainted blood treatment in 1984 and died at the age of 18 in 1990 -- said she welcomed the opportunity to speak with Republican Mike Huckabee to discuss his comments about...

Posted to Qnews (Weblog) by NewsEditor on 12-12-2007

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