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HIV sufferers could soon be able to work as surgeons or dentists. The Department of Health wants to lift the current ban because it claims any risk to patients is ‘very low’. Health workers who are HIV positive are banned from performing most surgery or dental treatment in case they cut themselves with their instruments and infect patients with their blood. They can become GPs, hospital doctors, nurses or midwives and carry out nearly all day-to-day tasks, including giving injections, which are considered low risk. | 
