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Americans with well-treated HIV can no longer be barred from enlisting in the United States military, a federal judge ruled Thursday, striking down the Pentagon’s last remaining policy limiting the service of those with the virus. “Defendants’ policies prohibiting the accession of asymptomatic HIV-positive individuals with undetectable viral loads into the military are irrational, arbitrary, and capricious.
There is now an antiretroviral regimen, Cabenuva, that requires a single injection every one or two months. And further pharmaceutical advancements are expected to expand the required intervals between such injections. The lawsuit, Wilkins v. Austin, was filed on behalf of three HIV-positive individuals who — due to the military policy of prohibiting people already diagnosed with HIV from enlisting or reenlisting — were barred from entry.
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