Peace Corps Boots HIV-Positive Volunteer

Jeremiah Johnson was still reeling from test results showing he was HIV-positive when he received even more bad news in January. The 25-year-old Peace Corps volunteer teaching English at a high school in the Ukraine was kicked out of the Corps. Johnson was informed by the Corps, the legendary federal agency that has placed generations of volunteers in impoverished and needy areas around the world, that he was on "automatic medical separation," which disqualified him from serving in another country.

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