A federal judge has overturned the Pentagon’s ban on asymptomatic HIV-positive people enlisting in the military, ruling it as discriminatory, reports LGBTQ Nation.
“Modern science has transformed the treatment of HIV,” U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema of the Eastern District of Virginia wrote in her ruling. “Asymptomatic HIV-positive service members with undetectable viral loads who maintain treatment are capable of performing all of their military duties, including worldwide deployment.”
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