CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL URGES END TO HIV BORDER EXCLUSION

On March 1 the U. S. Centers for Disease Control recommended that all diseases except one be removed from the list of conditions used to exclude persons from entering the United States. Only tuberculosis would remain grounds for exclusion.

However, HIV differs from all the other diseases in that it is the only one added to the list by Congress. (The others were added by public-health professionals.) U. S. officials believe that since Congress specifically put HIV on the list, only Congress can remove it. It may not be possible to do so in time to avoid disrupting the major AIDS scientific conference of 1990, scheduled for June 20-24 in San Francisco.