This article has been updated with a list of other countries with similar bans and a statement the Department of Health and Human services (HHS) .
The International AIDS Society (IAS), which portrays the biennial international event that attracts more than 20,000 participants, said he plans to hold the gathering 2012 in Washington, DC But before it holds throughout the conference the United States, the federal government needs to change a law that forbids people with HIV from entering the country.
IAS moved the 1992 conference in Boston to Amsterdam because the US government instituted the ban; the conference did not take place in the country since. "This long-standing law, which is contrary to all scientific evidence and the principles of human rights, is one of the weakest points of the US in HIV policy," the president said IAS Julio Montaner in a statement.
the US Congress repealed the law in July 08, but the US Department of Health and Human services still has HIV on the list of communicable diseases that . input bar the international AIDS conference has been held in Washington, DC, in 1987.
Eight other countries have a similar ban on HIV immigration: Brunei, China, Oman, Qatar, South Korea, Sudan, UAE and Yemen.
in a statement to ScienceInsider, HHS said it presented "a project notice the development of rules to implement this change" Office of management and budget for review.
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