I understand anyone with HIV will not be permitted access to china. but has anyone ever gone there and not declared their HIV status and gotten in anyway?
thanks.

Restrictions on HIV+ persons only effectively exist on applications for work visas, when a medical certificate is required. For all other kinds of visas no questions on health are asked, and none checked. Occasional health checks at frontiers merely take the form of questionnaires asking about fevers, and inadequately maintained body temperature sensors. Unless an HIV+ person is running a temperature, in which case he or she may be turned away for fear of SARS rather than AIDS, there are no effective restrictions. But voluntarily to declare infection would be to guarantee a seat on the next plane out. There is immense discrimination against those infected with HIV, and it would be unwise to mention the disease while in the country.

Peter N-H
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