Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claims for service connection for HIV and legal blindness due to ongoing evidentiary deficiencies and failure of the RO to fully comply with prior remand directives.
The deciding factor: The April 2025 VA examination did not fully address the contradictory medical evidence from the July 2024 VA examination, and there was a lack of development regarding TERA exposure as per the Veteran's MOS as a medic.
- Claimed conditions
- human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), legal blindness
- How they argued it
- Aggravation of a pre-existing condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 24, 2025
- Citation
- 25013275
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