Comment Submitted by Leo N. Egashira

These regulations are unnecessary and outrageously discriminatory. They do not protect the U.S. public from a disease that already exists in millions of fellow citizens. It is ironic and hypocritical that I, as an HIV-positive U.S. citizen, can travel to Canada and the European Union, but that an HIV-positive Canadian or European traveling to the U.S. can be denied entry. While the most odious provisions are unenforced (according to news reports), the fact that they can be selectively enforced--and have been--bespeaks an illogical, capricious and ideologically- based regulation that has no basis in medicine and law.