ICAAP: Australian Visa denied for a PWA from India

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Deaer Forum members,

It is let you know that Mr. Laxman Meena ? HIV positive person from

GAP-ISRCDE, Gujarat, India has not been granted visa for attending the

6ICAAP ? two of his visa applications have been refused stating that his

application does not meet the criteria.

Is his HIV status a question for non issuance of visa ? He has an

invitation letter from the ICAAP organizers and has a complimentary

registration for the stand of GAP and the Indian Network of NGOs

working on HIV/AIDS.

GAP had requested UNAIDS to send in a recommendation letter to the

consulate to facilitate the matter. Iis unfortunate that it could

not help a very enthusiastic Mr.Laxman Meena who was looking forward

to this opportunity to share his experiences of living a normal &

positive life after counseling.

A film on his work has been prepared by GAP which was to be screened

for the benefit of many other positive people in the Melbourne

Convention.

Radium Bhattacharya

Director, GAP-ISRCDE

President, INN

E-mail: <radium@...>

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