Mexico court overturns HIV military restrictions

In an 8-3 vote Mexico’s Supreme Court ruled earlier this week that the country’s military cannot exclude HIV-positive members from its ranks. Lawyers representing the military disgracefully argued that HIV-positive soldiers are “useless” but the Court strongly disagreed and ruled that the military could only kick out those medically unfit or with full-blown AIDS. “Everyone who viewed this law as unconstitutional has shown that it violates the rules of equality” mentioned in Mexico’s constitution, said Supreme Court president Guillermo Ortiz Mayagoitia during the proceedings.

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