Federal court rules Trump can’t discharge soldiers just for being HIV-positive

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The Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals has upheld a lower court ruling saying that the Trump Administration cannot discharge members of the Air Force just because they’re HIV-positive.

The decision prevents two HIV-positive Air Force members, identified in the court case as “Richard Roe” and “Victor Voe” to protect their anonymity, from being discharged. Now they may stay in the military while their case against the military’s ban on HIV-positive servicemembers proceeds.

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Roe and Voe were both set to be discharged by the Air Force in early 2019 after being diagnosed as HIV-positive. The Air Force discharged them because it concluded that dispatchers at U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) wouldn’t approve their international deployment as some international laws prohibit HIV-positive soldiers from entering other countries.

However, the judge ruled that the Air Force violated….

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