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Mildmay International, based in Southend, has been awarded a £3 million contract by the US Centre for Disease Control in Atlanta to train more doctors and nurses for its pioneering Aids centre in Uganda. The three-year contract will also fund Mildmay's mobile teams who train health workers in rural
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districts. Mildmay also have an Aids hospice in Hackney, East London, which has gained an international reputation over the years for innovative palliative HIV treatment and care.
US immigration bars HIV positive people
The Terrence Higgins Trust is organising a new campaign this spring against
US immigration rules that discriminate against people living with HIV
and Aids.
THT are encouraging people to ask their MPs to raise the issue with the
UK government and the US ambassador.
The discriminatory immigration rules were introduced by right-wing homophobe
Senator Jessie Helms in the 1980s and the subsequent case of a young child
with HIV who was denied a visa to visit Disneyland led to an international
diplomatic incident.
Since then an unknown number of HIV positive people have been turned away at entry to the USA and some have been forcibly sent back.
