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Because of the new meds., HIV/AIDS is not as debilitating as it once was. It is no longer a guaranteed acquisition of SSDI and patients often are capable of leading productive lives. There is no field that you cannot work in, so long as standard prophylactic and pathogenic protocols are followed that are already in place in every profession. The best assumption to make is to assume that everyone is infected with a blood born pathogen and take the appropriate precautions.