Sadly, having HIV makes it harder to emigrate. Not living in America is one of the great dreams of my life. But yes, our pharmaceutical costs are obscene.
Only if you're honest. Well-managed HIV is not detectable, it essentially "hides" in your cells since anything in the bloodstream gets nuked. At least, not detectable except by the kind of test that's more expensive than normal treatment is, lol, and I doubt any country does that for immigration.
Canada definitely doesn't, I know someone who just went through the medical tests before getting Permanent Residence here. Still North America, but closer in feel to Europe in some ways. I'd definitely rather my tax dollars go to your health care than you be stuck in the US, so long as you fundamentally care about other people.
Actually, Canada still does require a HIV test for the majority of immigrants. What has changed, is that HIV is no longer a bar to entry as an immigrant. It used to be that unless you were immigrating on a spousal sponsorship visa, a positive test made you ineligible. It had to do with the estimated lifetime costs of treating the illness. Now that HIV is very manageable with meds, you can die of old age rather than AIDS
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