Last September, China reintroduced a document requiring the serological status of people who enter the country. While the board meeting of the World Fund against Aids, tuberculosis and malaria was taking place, I intervened to protest against that meeting taking place in a country which closes its borders to foreigners who are Hiv infected. Nevertheless the meeting was held in China.
Bernard Kouchner, foreign minister and Michel Kazatchkine, director of the World  Fund just answered to tell me that thanks to their protests, China decided to re- open their borders to Hiv infected people. ”According to the present evaluation of the way the Aids virus is transmitted and the real dangers infected people represent, we will change the restrictions to their entering the country” declared Mao Qun’an, government speaker.

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He did not specify though when the new rules would be implemented nor whether the ban was to be entirely lifted. Although this announcement is positive , it might only be due to the fact that the World Fund is meeting in China and that it is the only source of income for the Chinese, who are infected and their associations. Moreover I had written an open letter to the President of the United States of America last year , asking him to lift the ban. On December the first , in a message published on the White House website George W.Bush announced that he would ask the Congress to lift the ban. A year later the promise has still not been held.
Let us hope that the Chinese government does not promise as lightly as the president of the United States of America .