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fatesrider writes: It's better to let someone go because they have an illness which they can't reasonably be expected to treat at their assigned location
I can understand why the Peace Corps dismissed him, and everyone else with HIV. Their ability to seek treatment for their condition is severely limited and the Peace Corps can't provide it.
fatesrider writes: It's better to let someone go because they have an illness which they can't reasonably be expected to treat at their assigned location
People tend to blame the person for their HIV and don't see the underlying issues or consider them to be irrelevant.
I can understand why the Peace Corps dismissed him, and everyone else with HIV. Their ability to seek treatment for their condition is severely limited and the Peace Corps can't provide it. It's better to let someone go because they have an illness which they can't reasonably be expected to treat at their assigned location.
That said, I'd be interested in finding out if the Peace Corps kicked out everyone who has HIV regardless of their location or assignment and whether being able to be assigned to any location is part of the job description.
If everyone in the Peace Corps may be posted in remote regions with limited or no health care, then fine, I can understand the policy. If not, then they COULD reasonably keep someone who had HIV in a place where health care is accessible and of sufficient quality.
It seems cruel, but it may be in the best interest of the person kicked out. Not knowing all the facts makes a conclusion one way or the other premature.
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Headlines: May, 2008; Peace Corps Ukraine; Directory of Ukraine RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Ukraine RPCVs; HIV; AIDS; Early Termination; Disabilities; Law
When this story was posted in May 2008, this was on the front page of PCOL:
Peace Corps Online The Independent News Forum serving Returned Peace Corps Volunteers
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Senator Chris Dodd vowed to filibuster the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act that would grant retroactive immunity to telecommunications companies that helped this administration violate the civil liberties of Americans. "It is time to say: No more. No more trampling on our Constitution. No more excusing those who violate the rule of law. These are fundamental, basic, eternal principles. They have been around, some of them, for as long as the Magna Carta. They are enduring. What they are not is temporary. And what we do not do in a time where our country is at risk is abandon them."
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Last summer Peace Corps Inspector General David Kotz cited the lack of cooperation from the US embassy in Bolivia in the search for missing Peace Corps Volunteer Walter Poirier III. Now a member of the US Embassy Staff in Bolivia is accused of asking Peace Corps Volunteers "to basically spy" on Cubans and Venezuelans in the country. Could US Ambassador Philip S.Goldberg please explain what is going on at the embassy that he has been running in La Paz since 2006?
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