Hepatitis B and Immigration/visa issues

[ThomasTu]

@anonymous36

Hello Everyone, I hope all of you are doing well.

I had this query about Visa restrictions for Qatar, but now it is sorted. I recently came to Qatar on Family Visit Visa for 1 month and to extend it for 3 months, I went for my medicals.

I am Hepatitis B positive but I got medically fit for the stay. Now I can extend my VISA here.

The process of medicals over here is, they took blood sample and chest X-ray. I don’t know what all tests they done on my sample but eventually the result came out to be the positive at my end.

Hopefully this helps other people, who are in future willing to come Qatar.

Dear @anonymous36,

That’s so great to hear and I’m glad that this wasn’t an impediment to your visa extension.

@Max1

I work as a Gastroenterology doctor, and I moved to Germany some time ago. During routine tests, I discovered that I have Hepatitis B with a viral load of 90,000, but after treatment with TAF for six weeks, it decreased to less than 25.
Now I’m worried, can I work as a doctor in Germany?
Will I face discrimination because of my condition?
Should I inform my employer during a job interview that I’m infected?
Can I keep my health information confidential?

I am not sure but it might be good if some of our German collegues could give insight here (@LenaAllweiss, @Tassilo, @Greg).

@Sirbay

My doctor wrote TAF for me but I bought TDF, is TAF more effective aside being prescribed for people with kidney problems.

My understanding is that both are very effective and indeed TDF is prescribed as a first line therapy here in Australia (with the option of changing to TAF if there are any side-effects or worries about kidney issues).

Cheers,
Thomas