Health / HIV travel ban US Ends Ban on HIV-Positive Travelers Visitors, immigrants with infection no longer barred By Will McCahill, Newser Staff Posted Jan 4, 2010 9:16 PM CST Copied Volunteers bearing HIV/AIDS awareness symbols take part in an AIDS awareness event on the World AIDS Day in Beijing, Dec. 1, 2009. (AP Photo) Today saw the end of a US ban on travel and immigration by HIV-positive individuals, a rule that had been in place since 1987. The Centers for Disease Control removed the infection from the category of “communicable diseases of public-health significance” after President Obama said last year the ban was “rooted in fear rather than fact.” (More HIV travel ban stories.) Report an error