AIDS is an allconsuming Illness that can result In medical costs of $100.000 or more for each patient. according to some recent estimates. It seems likely that many alien HIVinfected persons may well indeed become public charges after their admission to the United States. It is for this reason that the American Medical Association has opposed the admission of such persons into the United States as permanent immigrants. Let us ask honest and sensible questions: Does the admission of immigrants with HIV infection create a public health risk to the people of the United States. are such immigrants likely to become a public charge after entering our country? Until these two Issues are resolved. I would certainly counsel against the striking of HIV infection from the list of communicable diseases being of public health significance.
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