The Board granted an initial 10 percent rating for HIV, effective from April 26, 2022.
The deciding factor: The Veteran meets the criteria for a 10 percent rating due to daily medication use for his HIV.
- Claimed conditions
- Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- March 21, 2025
- Citation
- A25026611
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.
What you can do next
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Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
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- Denied
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- Granted
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