Serving personnel taking suppressive treatment will be recognised as fully fit for all service from Tuesday
UK armed forces personnel with HIV are to be declared fully fit and be able to deploy overseas, defence officials have said, in a move that removes the final barrier to service for personnel with the virus.
Campaigners welcomed the change but called for remaining barriers to military aircrew and air traffic controllers being allowed to take PrEP to be lifted. Ian Green, the chief executive at Terrence Higgins Trust, said: “Forty years since the start of the HIV epidemic, this historic rule change shows the truly remarkable progress that’s been made.”
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