What are travel restrictions?
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- Travel Restrictions
- What are travel restrictions?
- Impacts
- Reasons for travel restrictions
- Task team on travel restrictions
- Restricted from travel: Personal accounts
Travel restrictions can be for both short term stays (e.g. business or personal visits) or longer periods (e.g. asylum, employment, study, immigration). These laws or administrative orders often require people to indicate their HIV-free status prior to entering the country, either via declaration, HIV test or HIV-free certificate. If people are HIV positive, they are not allowed to enter the country, or not allowed to enter without a special waiver. The HIV tests people can be forced to take are often without counseling or on the basis of informed consent. Those who did not declare their status, but are found to have HIV medications in their bags by border security, can be turned away. People who are already in the country and found to be HIV positive can be either denied residency or face deportation.
74 countries have some sort of travel restrictions and 12 countries (United States, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Armenia, Brunei, China, Qatar, South Korea, Libya, Moldova and Oman) ban HIV positive people from entering the country for any reason or length of time. To find out about country-specific restrictions, click here.