{"id":4643,"date":"2001-07-30T18:54:19","date_gmt":"2001-07-30T17:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moomango.co.uk\/htb\/?p=4643"},"modified":"2014-06-11T17:30:24","modified_gmt":"2014-06-11T17:30:24","slug":"canada-reverses-ban-on-entry-of-hiv-positive-immigrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/4643","title":{"rendered":"Canada Reverses ban on entry of HIV-positive immigrants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In a &#8220;dramatic reversal,&#8221; the Canadian federal government is revoking a plan to ban entry of HIV-positive immigrants, the Toronto Star reports. Citizenship and Immigration Minister Elinor Caplan announced the decision Tuesday after Health Minister Allan Rock submitted a letter recommending that the ban should be reversed.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Rock wrote, &#8220;An inflexible policy of excluding all immigrants who test positive would not reflect the nature of the risk nor our capacity to minimize it.&#8221; He noted that HIV &#8220;is not transmitted through casual contact,&#8221; and its spread &#8220;can be slowed down.&#8221; While Canada still plans to require HIV tests for all prospective immigrants, the tests will aim to ensure that immigrants receive the &#8220;proper treatment when they arrive in Canada.&#8221; Rock added, &#8220;One of the objectives of our domestic HIV\/AIDS strategy is to eliminate the stigma that too often attaches to those living with HIV.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Star notes that some HIV-positive immigrants may &#8220;still face barriers to entering Canada,&#8221; and the immigration department could &#8220;still argue that an independent immigrant with AIDS could pose an excessive demand on Canada&#8217;s health care system and should be barred from entry&#8221; (Thompson, Toronto Star, 12\/06).<\/p>\n<p>Source: Kaiser Daily HIV\/AIDS Reports<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kaisernetwork.org\">http:\/\/www.kaisernetwork.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a &#8220;dramatic reversal,&#8221; the Canadian federal government is revoking a plan to ban entry of HIV-positive immigrants, the Toronto Star reports. Citizenship and Immigration Minister Elinor Caplan announced the decision Tuesday after Health Minister Allan Rock submitted a letter &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}