Word: marlink
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...despite the absolute discrimination espoused by the ban--a ban "not founded in public health policy," according to AIDS Institute Executive Director Dr. Richard G. Marlink--Harvard officials were surely aware of a specific loophole in the restriction allowing travel for the purpose of attending a conferences such as the AIDS Conference. Indeed, such a waiver was obtained by organizers of the last International AIDS Conference held in the U.S., 1990's San Francisco conference, allowing HIV-positive individuals from other countries to participate...
...preemptive suit, reported first by The Boston Globe just days after the U.S. Senate reaffirmed its utterly xenophobic ban on HIV-positive immigrants, must be especially disheartening to those AIDS activists and researchers who have fought for lifting U.S. travel restrictions, including AIDS Institute officials such as Marlink...
Harvard made the right decision in 1991. But today, if Marlink and his colleagues at the AIDS Institute, the School and Public Health and other University-affiliated institutions hope to make any more bold statements regarding U.S. health policy, they've been effectively stymied by cheap Holyoke Center administrative bureaucrats. The University should be more than conscious of the power of money, given its $5 billion plus endowment and the effectiveness of political statements it has made in the past...
...Ladd and Marlink agreed that the arguments of ban proponents are unfounded...
...Marlink said he thought the amendment would pass in the House because of the "perceived public mis-conception of...an economic and health threat...