The K1 visa holder or the petitionee has to undergo medical examination. From Wordnik.com. [Global Voices in English » USA: One Step Closer to Lifting HIV Travel Ban] Reference
Thus, the petitionee who is found to be HIV positive, may still enter US soil. From Wordnik.com. [Global Voices in English » USA: One Step Closer to Lifting HIV Travel Ban] Reference
The K1 visa is a non-immigrant visa but prior to departure to the US, the petitionee undergoes medical examination and interview in the immigration section of the US Embassy where the petitionee resides - which basically means that a K1 visa undergoes the same process like most intending immigrants to the US. From Wordnik.com. [Global Voices in English » USA: One Step Closer to Lifting HIV Travel Ban] Reference
So you may also want to add that in an exception to the K1 visa (fiance and dependents), there is a provision that states that even if the K1 visa holder was diagnosed as HIV positive, the petitioner in the US may have the option to send in an affidavit that the petitioner is still willing to marry the petitioner even if the petitionee is found to be HIV positive. From Wordnik.com. [Global Voices in English » USA: One Step Closer to Lifting HIV Travel Ban] Reference
X. MAMERTINI I 'fine labore, quod numquam; fine petitionee quod iiemi | ii«. From Wordnik.com. [Panegyrici veteres qvos ex codice ms. librisqve collatis recensvit ae notis integris iisqve partim ad hve ineditis Christiani Gottlibii Schwarzii et excerptis aliorvm additis etiam svis instrvxit et illvstravit Wolfgangvs Iaegervs ..] Reference
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