Pandemic Watch
05/12/2008
The Peace Corps Wants You – But not if you contract HIV
RICH diversity apparently doesn’t include able-bodied Americans who are also HIV-positive. As Post columnist Stephen Barr reported last week, Jeremiah S. Johnson learned that harsh lesson in January when he was drummed out of his service in Ukraine and out of the Peace Corps altogether after he tested positive for the virus that causes AIDS. The American Civil Liberties Union is suing the 47-year-old creation of President Kennedy on Mr. Johnson’s behalf to get it to stay true …read more
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