Posted on 06/13/2022 1:37:40 PM PDT by 11th_VA
WASHINGTON -- The Pentagon will no longer automatically ban people who are HIV-positive from joining the US military as officers or deploying abroad.
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin issued a memo this week updating HIV policies for the military "in view of significant advances in the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention" of the virus.
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WASHINGTON -- The Pentagon will no longer automatically ban people who are HIV-positive from joining the US military as officers or deploying abroad.
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin issued a memo this week updating HIV policies for the military "in view of significant advances in the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention" of the virus. Advertisement
The new policy says that individuals who are HIV-positive, are asymptomatic, and who have a confirmed undetectable viral load will no longer have restrictions applied to them. Moreover, they cannot be discharged or separated from military service solely because they are HIV-positive, the memo states.
The policy changes follow a recent federal court decision that ruled Defense Department policies were unlawful. The Biden administration has already made a decision to not appeal those rulings and move ahead with the changes, according to a defense official.
Service members are tested at least every two years and before and after deployments, according to a defense official...
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First Case of Monkeypox Among Active-Duty US Service Members Diagnosed in Germany
A U.S. service member in Stuttgart, Germany, was diagnosed with monkeypox last week, the first confirmed case of the virus among active-duty personnel.
In a statement released Monday, U.S. European Command spokesman Chuck Prichard said the service member was seen and treated at the Stuttgart Army Health Clinic and remains in isolation "recovering in their quarters" on base...
A U.S. service member in Stuttgart, Germany, was diagnosed with monkeypox last week, the first confirmed case of the virus among active-duty personnel.
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2022/06/13/first-case-of-monkeypox-among-active-duty-us-service-members-diagnosed-germany.html
Because after all, doesn’t everyone want HIV?
“The Pentagon will no longer automatically ban people who are HIV-positive from joining the US military as officers or deploying abroad”
So the military elite wannabes get a break? I guess that will make a bunch of HIV positives that join quality for medical care for life thanks to the American taxpayers.
This is a great time to do it too because the number of international security problems is basically zero, thanks to Joe Biden's strong hand on the tiller.
Hope they will not be in combat positions.
But they damn well better be vaxxed.
Those anti-HIV meds cost hundreds of dollars a month.
We’re not just invading you to spread democracy...
so GAIDS good, covid BAD...
Madness.
Meanwhile, people who spent too much time in the UK in the 80s and early 90s still can’t donate blood...
Or put them all in the same unit.
Don't want some AIDS guy's blood splattering all over the non-infected troops.
Hasn’t Fraud-chi been working on an HIV vaccine for,
. . . decades?
must a gotten side-tracked from the buckets of cash for the Bird Flu, then the ChiComWuHu, and now the Monkey Pox.
it’s a tough row to hoe to pile up all that cash.
I guess every army needs some cannon fodder....
Nice way to make sure whole platoons get wiped out if one squad member gets shot or blown up and the blood flies
Isn’t HIV a death sentence? They need the troops. Just remember at the height of Viet Nam there were only about 50k troops on the front lines. 500k more throughout the country, one being Al Gore who had bodyguards. Still he served.
We need the bodies. Discharge them when their enlistment is up.
Disgusting.
LOL !!!
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