Friday, April 8, 2022

Deployment and commissioning of HIV+ personnel

There's been a major ruling in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. According to NBC, Judge Leonie Brinkema has ordered "the Defense Department to end a long-standing Pentagon policy forbidding enlisted military service members from deploying in active duty outside the continental U.S. and being commissioned as officers if they have HIV. . . . Brinkema ruled that the Pentagon’s policy qualifying HIV as a chronic condition requiring a waiver was scientifically outdated and that it unfairly treated people with the virus differently from other service members living with chronic health conditions requiring routine medication."

Will the government appeal?

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