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China mulling lifting ban on visitors with HIV

China is considering overturning the ban that prohibits HIV-positive foreigners from entering the country, an official said here Friday.

15 Mar 2010

"We are discussing lifting the ban as soon as possible," Hao Yang, deputy director-general of the Ministry of Health's Bureau of Disease Control, told Xinhua.

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