The Board of Veterans' Appeals has remanded the case for further development due to insufficient medical records and examination, as well as consideration of psychiatric conditions and separate ratings.
The deciding factor: Further investigation is needed to determine the exact nature and extent of the appellant's HIV-related illness and whether he suffers from any related opportunistic infections or neoplasms.
- Claimed conditions
- Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infection, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS)
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 2, 2001
- Citation
- 0100026
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What this means for you
A remand is not a loss. The Board sent the case back for more development — often a new exam or missing records — before making a final decision. Many remands later end in a grant, and the decision spells out exactly what the Board wanted to see.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Denied
The Veteran's HIV infection is denied as there is no nexus between his service and the condition, despite his belief that it was caused by military sexual trauma. The Board found that the evidence does not support a finding of service connection.
- Granted
The Board has determined that the Veteran's acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) is related to his active service, and thus grants service connection for AIDS.
- Denied
The Board denied service connection for HIV and AIDS, finding that the evidence does not support a link between these conditions and the Veteran's service-connected focal segmental glomerulosclerosis.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the case due to insufficient medical opinion regarding whether the Veteran's HIV/AIDS is proximately due to or aggravated by his service-connected Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis (FSGS).
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