A South Korean court has blocked plans by immigration officials to deport a Korean-Chinese man because he is HIV-positive, court officials said Friday. The Seoul Administrative Court said in a ruling announced Thursday that such an action would deter others from seeking HIV tests, the officials told AFP.
The national human rights commission had appealed to [...]
South Korean court blocks plan to deport HIV patient
Migrant Workers in California Receive HIV Education
The migrant workers who have returned this season to often-isolated camps and barracks scattered over San Joaquin County farmland are at high risk of contracting and carrying HIV as they move across state and national lines, say public health advocates who face a range of obstacles in their work to prevent the virus’s spread.
Outside one [...]
Study Reveals Health Care Woes of Asian Americans
National health care studies often treat Asian Americans as a homogenous, and largely healthy group, but a new study analyzing three years of government-compiled data has revealed substantial pockets of poor health and low insurance levels within the population. Korean Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders clock in with lower levels of insurance than African [...]
Bill To Repeal HIV Immigration Ban Wins Key Committee Approval
The Senate Foreign Relations committee on Thursday approved legislation that would repeal a travel and immigration ban on people with HIV. The measure now moves to a full vote on the Senate floor.
The ban was originally enacted in 1987, and explicitly restated in 1993, despite efforts in the public health community to remove the ban [...]
Day Laborers Offered Money for Sex
A New American Media article sheds light on a rising, but not necessarily newfound, concern among the rising HIV/AIDS rate among day laborers.
Bienestar, an organization devoted to educating, preventing and treating HIV and AIDS in the Latino community, has launched a program geared specifically toward day laborers.
“As the day ended, people would come, other men [...]