Can HIV-infected people or patients go abroad or enter the country?

The detailed rules for the implementation of China's current entry law for foreigners stipulate that foreigners suffering from mental illness, leprosy, AIDS, sexually transmitted diseases, open tuberculosis and other infectious diseases are not allowed to enter the country. However, Mao Qunan, a spokesperson for the Ministry of Health, revealed a few days ago that according to the current assessment of AIDS transmission channels and the harm of infected people to the environment, we are considering and starting to revise the existing laws and regulations that restrict the entry of AIDS-infected people.

China considers lifting restrictions on AIDS.

Entry of infected persons is not only a consideration of international AIDS prevention needs, but also a feedback of international public opinion on China's policy of restricting AIDS patients. But the most fundamental reason is that Michel Kazatchkine, executive director of the Global Fund for the Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases such as AIDS, said that the entry restrictions for AIDS patients have no public health significance. China's revised regulations will conform to global (entry and exit) management.

Does the entry restriction for AIDS patients have no public health significance? Does the lifting of restrictions meet global standards? In fact, this issue has not formed any international practices and standards around the world. Based on the prevention and treatment of AIDS and other serious infectious diseases in China, different countries have different management measures for AIDS. Its essence is that they should not discriminate against patients, but also take some compulsory measures to control the disease.

About 170 countries in the world have different restrictions on HIV carriers or patients in immigration and entry. Take the United States, a relatively free, less restrictive and typical immigrant country, as an example. For immigrants, the US Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) refuses AIDS patients who are not nationals to enter the United States, while in terms of entry and exit, the United States allows domestic patients to enter and leave the United States freely without restrictions from the destination country. At the same time, there is a set of very severe punishment measures for the behavior of evading the corresponding laws such as immigration fraud related to AIDS. Similarly, foreigners applying for residence and immigration in Canada need AIDS test results. If they are positive, their application will be rejected. South Korea has adopted a compulsory method of direct deportation to foreign AIDS infected people and patients.