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For 22 years America has banned HIV-positive people from entering the country without a hard-to-get waiver for fear of the virus
For 22 years America has banned HIV-positive people from entering the country without a hard-to-get waiver for fear of the virus
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2015-12-28
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For 22 years America has banned HIV-positive people from entering the country without a hard-to-get waiver for fear of the virus spreading. It has not hosted a big international AIDS conference in more than a decade either, because many HIV-positive activists would not be allowed to attend. Only a dozen other countries, including China and Russia, have similar restrictions, and there is no evidence that these bans halt the spread of AIDS. Instead, many say, it makes things worse by stigmatizing carriers of the virus.
On October 30th Barack Obama announced that he will do away with this cruel rule. From 2010, HIV-positive people will be able to travel to America and will also be able to apply for citizenship there. Reversing the ban will bring families together who were separated because of HIV. "Thank you. Thank you. Thank you," wrote Andrew Sullivan, a British journalist who is HIV-positive after Mr. Obama’s announcement. He has been nervous when visiting his family in Britain for fear that he would not be allowed to re-enter America, where he and his husband live.
Reversing the travel ban may help Mr. Obama combat HIV/AIDS domestically by emphasizing that it is a national disease, not one brought in by foreigners. Around 1.1m Americans are HIV-positive, and more needs to be done to address the spread of the virus. There were more than 56,000 new infections in America in 2006, according to the Centers for Disease Control. Metropolitan areas have particularly high AIDS rates. The incidence of HIV/AIDS in Washington, DC, is so high(around 3%)that it has inspired an AIDS organization to put up posters calling AIDS "DCs Katrina".
This is Mr. Obama’s first policy change when it comes to fighting AIDS at home, and it is something that human-rights advocates and gay-rights groups have been demanding for years. Mr. Obama has also appointed an AIDS "tsar" and says he is working to develop a national AIDS strategy. But as he gets his ducks in order, the situation is getting worse. State budget cuts have left some people without access to treatment, and in some states waiting-lists for cheap antiretroviral drugs are long. Mr. Obama also reauthorized the Ryan White CARE Act, which provides funding for AIDS treatment. Many worry, though, that when the money comes through it will not be enough to compensate for the cuts to AIDS programs that states have already made.
By reversing the ban, Mr. Obama has made good on one of his promises to his gay supporters, who have felt overlooked so far during his presidency. But the good news was followed, on November 3rd, by the overturning in a referendum of a law permitting gay marriage in Maine.
According to Paragraph 4, the reversion of travel ban
选项
A、is Mr. Obama’s first policy change.
B、wins the favor of gay-right advocates.
C、has received the opposite effect.
D、deprives some people of access to treatment.
答案
B
解析
事实细节题。根据第四段①句可知,废除禁入令是人权倡导者和同性恋权利支持者争取多年的事情,因此这样做能赢得他们的好感,故B项是正确的。
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考研英语一
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