AIDS Is devastating entire populations. It Is a tragedy. and it Is entirely appropriate that we have made combating the AIDS virus a priority of our foreign aid program. But permitting HIVInfected individuals to enter the United States as refugees is quite a different matter. When President Clinton announced his intention to reverse the ban on AIDs victims entering the United States. while it is motivated by an understandable desire to alleviate the suffering of the 300 Haitians at Guantanamo Bay who are infected with HIV. will Inevitably put additional Americans at risk. It will place additional strains on a health care system that Is already terribly overburdened with American citizens suffering from HIV.
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