As of December 14, 2009, foreign nationals who apply for immigrant visas or adjustment of status are no longer required to receive the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination. CDC will continue to require vaccination for mumps, measles, rubella, polio, tetanus and diphtheria toxoids, pertussis, Haemophilus influenzae type B, and hepatitis B. Others will be required only
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HIV-Positive Aliens No Longer Inadmissible to US
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On November 2, 2009, the Centers for Disease Control of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued a final rule removing HIV infection from the list of “communicable diseases of public health significance,” effective January 4, 2010. The rule means that HIV-positive foreign nationals will no longer be inadmissible to the United States…