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Offline Nestor

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Re: Aids vs. HIV
« Reply #100 on: March 25, 2010, 06:34:28 pm »
Quote from: jcelvis on March 13, 2010, 01:07:49 am
Good luck getting into the peace corp with an HIV + status, up until 2008 the peace corp kicked volunteers out of the program when they found out they were positive, luckily the ACLU stepped in but there issue only dealt with people who found out they were positive once they started in the program. They may not deny your application on grounds of being HIV +, but they will find another way not to accept you. The peace corp doesn't want to be responsible for your medical care.

Alas, I know all about it.  They still have HIV as one of the conditions for which they will not normally be able to place people.  However I am still applying on the grounds that it can't hurt to try.  Since I currently have no medical care for them to be responsible for, and since they now have had a couple of positive volunteers in the circumstances you describe and who have done rather well, I am thinking it may not be impossible after all. 
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Offline Hellraiser

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Re: Aids vs. HIV
« Reply #101 on: March 25, 2010, 07:09:37 pm »
Sorry Nestor, like the military they're not going to let you in based on your positive status.
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Offline Etay1207

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Re: Aids vs. HIV
« Reply #102 on: March 25, 2010, 08:23:06 pm »
I always say that I have AIDS.
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Offline Matty the Damned

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Re: Aids vs. HIV
« Reply #103 on: March 25, 2010, 08:52:39 pm »
Quote from: Etay1207 on March 25, 2010, 08:23:06 pm
I always say that I have AIDS.

That's because you do have AIDS.

MtD
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Offline Miss Philicia

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Re: Aids vs. HIV
« Reply #104 on: March 25, 2010, 08:55:50 pm »
Quote from: matty.the.damned on March 25, 2010, 08:52:39 pm
That's because you do have AIDS.

MtD

Now now, you know that there's Quiet AIDS and then there's Fierce AIDS.
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Offline Jeffreyj

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Re: Aids vs. HIV
« Reply #105 on: March 25, 2010, 09:44:54 pm »
I have WHATEVER for 25 years and I'm still alive. Call it what you want.

I call it life.   Go me!
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Offline spock

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Re: Aids vs. HIV
« Reply #106 on: December 29, 2010, 11:53:53 am »
Exactly, we may argue the semantics of the difference between HIV+ and AIDS but in the outside world HIV+ means AIDS to 99.9% of the people. We simply have to manage the perceptions to the best of our abilities.
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