BI deports American with HIV

ANGELES CITY — The Bureau of Immigration (BI) has blacklisted an American national who was reported to have had sex with at least eight local girls despite his awareness that he was positive for the human immuno-deficiency virus (HIV) which leads to the fatal acquired immuno-deficiency syndrome (AIDS).

Immigration Commissioner Andrea Domingo told The Star yesterday that the black listed HIV carrier, Roy Henry Coleman, 40, of Oklahoma voluntarily left the country last Friday after the Angeles police arrested him on the complaint of another American expatriate who was afraid for his businesses here.

City health officer Dr. Joven Esguerra said that American businessman Mark Smith complained to the police that Coleman had been frequenting nightspots along Fields Avenue, a tourism district near Clark Field, and that his presence could adversely affect local entertainment business.

Many foreign expatriates in this city have learned of Coleman’s illness after Dr. Froilan Canlas confirmed that the latter was indeed positive for HIV. Coleman was a patient of Canlas last year. Coleman had been staying at the Orchid’s hotel here for quite sometime.

Esguerra said that his office will conduct health tests on hundreds of girls working in local night spots, particularly at Fields, as some of the eight girls with whom Coleman was reported to have had sex could not be immediately identified. — Ding Cervantes