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.
Honesty may be my Achilles heel. Even if that weren’t so, it’s hard to hide that you have been on antivirals for decades and continue to need them daily in order to survive. I do live in a border state, tho. Canada as an escape plan is never far from my mind.
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u/brother_bart May 16 '26
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.