October 30

President Obama said on Friday that the United States would do away with a government ban prohibiting foreign nationals with HIV from entering the country, lifting a 22-year-old “decision rooted in fear rather than fact” that he said had added to a stigma of the disease.

Obama Lifts Ban on Visitors With HIV (via southpol)

Alternate headline: Black Man’s Actions Make Jesse Helms Upset (or would, if he were still alive)

(via catbus)

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