LONDON: Britain plans to allow people who have tested positive for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) to join the armed forces if they no longer carry a detectable amount of the virus, its defense ministry said on Wednesday (Thursday in Manila).
Military personnel who become infected with HIV after enlistment can already remain in the armed forces — though they are classed as not fully fit, a categorization which the defense ministry said it planned to change, too.
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