The Veteran's initial claim for service connection for HIV/AIDS was granted, and he is currently receiving a 30 percent rating retroactively effective from October 1, 2006. However, his appeal seeks an increase in the disability rating beyond this initial grant.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence does not support a higher disability rating as there are no refractory constitutional symptoms or pathological weight loss documented since service connection was established.
- Claimed conditions
- Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Gastroenteritis, Weight Loss
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 30%
- Decision date
- April 6, 2010
- Citation
- 1012919
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What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
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