The Board denied service connection for an HIV related illness as there was no evidence of the claimed condition being due to service and a lack of substantiating evidence supporting a nexus between the current diagnosis and service.
The deciding factor: The unfavorable VA opinion discussed above was based on medical principles and applied to the facts of the case, finding that without evidence of a diagnosis during service or evidence showing that service caused the diagnosis, it was not plausible to state that the current HIV diagnosis was incurred in or caused by military service.
- Claimed conditions
- HIV related illness
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 6, 2025
- Citation
- A25086100
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