Today (December 1) is World AIDS Day.  The theme of this year’s World AIDS Day is Universal Access and Human Rights. On October 30, 2009, the Obama Administration announced a related change in U.S. policy,ending HIV as a grounds of inadmissibility in U.S. immigration law.  The new rule will take effect on January 4, 2010 in the United States.  Read the statements by the UN Secretary-General and the UNAIDS Executive Director and learn more about what the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) is doing to combat the spread of the disease globally.