According to an activist, people who are suffering from AIDS are not allowed to visit the United states. 

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) puts HIV in the list of communicable disease that restricted the HIV infected people from entering the country.

The Department of Homeland Securities (DHS) in U.S. is going to carry out a new regulation that relaxes restrictions on issuing US visas to the visitors who are HIV-positive. 

According to this regulation, the HIV-positive people who want to visit the United States can receive temporary, non-immigrant visas without undergoing waiver process.

The regulation will also allow some applicants to receive visas in just one day rather than waiting for 18 days for processing.  

Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said: “significantly improves the opportunities for individuals seeking to visit the US who were previously inadmissible because of an HIV infection,while maintaining a high level of security at our borders.”

President of the Global Health Council Dr. Nils Daulaire said, “The White House and the US Congress have been very clear about the directive to change the outdated, stigmatizing travel ban for HIV-positive people who want to visit the United States. “ But streamlining the visa process is not the same thing as dropping the ban.”

In July, US president George W Bush signed legislation [PDF text; White House fact sheet] reauthorizing the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and removed a statutory requirement that mandated the inclusion of HIV on the list of diseases of public health significance. The department of HHS still identify HIV as a “communicable disease of public health significance” [USCIS backgrounder], making waivers necessary for HIV-positive visa applicants until this week's DHS action.