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  Peak experiences: HIV, adventure and exploration

  It’s been almost a tradition in HTU that January is the time to include a New Year resolution piece about exercise, diet or the benefits of healthy living....

  From:  HIV treatment update

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  US HIV travel ban set to depart at last

  It has been a long time in coming and there have been many false dawns, but it really does look as if the ban on people...

  From:  HIV treatment update

Travel in your own words

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  Holiday hassles and HRT

  A much-needed holiday. Tickets, passports, driving licence – all go in my hand luggage. I leave the toiletry bag out till the last minute. I...

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Travel news from aidsmap

• For patients with HIV viral load is key in immune response to yellow fever vaccine

  Viral load is the only factor associated with a poorer antibody response to the yellow fever vaccine in patients with HIV, according to a French study published in the online edition of the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes. For ...

  02 February 2012 | Michael Carter

• Deportations of people with HIV widespread; activists' tactics differ

  Across the globe, 31 countries have policies of deporting HIV-positive citizens of other countries, the Eighteenth International Conference in Vienna was told on Tuesday. Moreover, speakers from three European countries explained that while their countries do not deport individuals because ...

  21 July 2010 | Roger Pebody

• China repeals its HIV travel ban

  China has repealed its long-standing HIV travel ban. The move comes just days before the opening of a major trade exposition in Shanghai, which is expected to attract millions of international visitors. Announcing the removal of ...

  28 April 2010 | Michael Carter

• Advice on HIV medication for travellers stranded by air travel ban

  Travel disruption caused by the cloud of volcanic ash over northern Europe may continue for some days, and is presenting problems for people with HIV who are stranded and running out of antiretroviral drugs. There are a ...

  20 April 2010 | Keith Alcorn

• Parliamentarians, UNAIDS, call for removal of HIV travel bans

  Parliamentarians have joined with UNAIDS to call for the removal of travel restrictions for people with HIV. Governments were urged to action by parliamentarians from around the world, meeting at the 122nd Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary ...

  29 March 2010 | Michael Carter

• Visa refusal shines spotlight on China's HIV travel ban

  A spotlight has fallen on China’s continued entry ban for HIV-positive foreigners after HIV-positive Australian novelist Robert Dessaix was refused entry to the country. Dessaix had planning to attend the Shanghai International Literary Festival and also ...

  12 March 2010 | Michael Carter

• US HIV travel ban has now ended

  HIV-positive individuals can legally visit and migrate to the US from today. President Obama announced the end of the ban at the end of October 2009, but there was a 60-day waiting period before this finally ...

  04 January 2010 | Michael Carter

• President Obama announces US HIV travel ban will end in January 2010

  US President Barack Obama has announced that the ban on HIV-positive people entering the US will finally end early in the new year. Speaking in Washington, President Obama said that the removal of the ban would ...

  30 October 2009 | Michael Carter

• International AIDS Conference in 2012 will be held in the US if travel ban finally removed

  An international HIV conference will be held in the US in 2012 – but only if the US removes its travel ban on HIV-positive travellers. The International AIDS Society has announced that it will hold the ...

  12 June 2009 | Michael Carter

• PEPFAR reauthorisation approved by President Bush; HIV travel ban will end

  President Bush today signed into law a President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief re-authorised by Congress for five years with more than twice the funds used between 2003 and 2008, with a mandate to provide care ...

  30 July 2008 | Keith Alcorn

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• UNAIDS applauds Mongolia for removing HIV-related travel restrictions

  The United Nations Joint Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) has welcomed the recent law reforms in Mongolia that have removed all travel restrictions and other discriminatory provisions for people living with HIV.

  04 February 2013 | UN News Centre

• Qatar making progress fighting AIDS 'taboo'

  While the Gulf has worked to improve treatment of people suffering from HIV/AIDS, critics say much more work is needed.

  07 December 2012 | Al Jazeera

• Ahead of World AIDS Day CEOs call to end HIV travel restrictions

  This World AIDS Day, Chief Executives (CEO’s) from some of the world’s largest companies are calling for an end to travel restrictions for people living with HIV. More than 40 CEOs have signed an unprecedented pledge urging the repeal of laws and policies in 45 countries that still deport, detain or deny entry to people solely because they are living with HIV.

  28 November 2012 | UNAIDS

• Activists Interrupt Press Conference at AIDS 2012

  The activists were protesting against the attitude of conference organizers, who had praised the US government for lifting the travel ban on people living with HIV -- but failed to address the remaining travel restrictions on people who use drugs and sex workers, who could not attend the conference if they declared their status.

  24 July 2012 | You Tube / Hungarian Civil Liberties Union

• USA: banning people with HIV from attending the AIDS 2012 conference

  Heidemarie Kremer is a medical doctor, psychologist, and scientist. She has been barred from presenting her science at the International AIDS Conference in Washington because she is HIV-positive. She writes, "I have a criminal record because I am open about my HIV status. The stigma has made me silent".

  18 July 2012 | 50.50

• Republic of Moldova lifts travel restrictions for people living with HIV, strengthens protections against discrimination

  The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) applauds the legislative reforms by the Republic of Moldova to lift its restrictions on entry, stay or residence based on HIV status. With these reforms, the Republic of Moldova joins a growing list of countries that are aligning national HIV legislation with international public health and human rights standards.

  24 June 2012 | UNAIDS

• Defying Realpolitik: Human Rights and the HIV Entry Bar

  This is the story of how we won; of how a coalition of advocates and activists came together and used a rights-based argument to lift a 23-year-old US bar on the entry, residence, and stay of HIV-positive people. We were told our objective was unrealistic and that our tactics wouldn’t work. Yet, after a little over three years of concentrated effort, victory was ours: an important victory and one came too late for too many.

  02 June 2012 | Scholar & Feminist Online

• UK: New pre-entry TB screening for visa applicants

  Those travelling to the UK could be screened for tuberculosis before being granted a visa, the Home Office says.

  23 May 2012 | BBC News

• US sheds the Helms Rule's legacy

  This July, a shadow that Jesse Helms cast over HIV policy will be dramatically lifted. The enormous International AIDS Conference will meet in the United States for the first time in more than 20 years, ending a boycott that protested a policy the late North Carolina Republican senator pushed into law.

  14 May 2012 | Politico

• Jordan - AIDS, hepatitis tests obligatory for all foreign patients

  22 February 2012 | MENAFN

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