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HIV Positive Pilot Denied Certificate To Fly in Scotland

By JRL Charts|2017-12-13T12:35:16-08:00December 13th, 2017|Categories: LGBT Politics|Tags: CAA, commercial pilot, denied medical certificate, EASA, European aviation safety agency, hiv diagnosis, HIV Scotland, HIV-positive|

By: Jack MacNamara, Staff Writer GLASGOW, SCOTLAND — A male pilot from Glasgow, Scotland has been denied a medical certificate so that he could have worked as a commercial airline pilot simply because of his HIV positive status. The man, was garnered fame after Patrick Strudwick at BuzzFeed and then the BBC broke the story. [...]

Patients May Have Less HIV In Their Body Than Doctors Thought

By: Jack MacNamara, Staff Writer According to John Hopkins and George Washington Universities, they have discovered potentially new evidence that suggest defective forms of HIV are creating proteins that are interacting with a person's immune system which then makes it think that a patient may have more HIV in their bodies than they actually do. [...]