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13 Jan. 2021 / 14:41
HIV-positive people in Moldova will be able to adopt children
HIV status is no longer an obstacle for those who want to give a child a family, love and care. Thanks to the Public Association "Positive Initiative", the Ministry of Health, Labor and Social Protection has issued an order allowing HIV-positive couples to adopt children. The decision came shortly after couples in which one of the partners is HIV-positive have begun to benefit from in vitro fertilization, reports Moldova 1.
Moldova 1 reporters contacted a family where both parents were diagnosed with HIV. The two spouses asked us to keep them anonymously. They have a child together, and in 2015, due to the insistence with which they knocked on several doors, they were able to take care of a child who was then ten years old, infected with HIV. The woman says the minor, who is now 16, was left without parental care, including because of this.
The representatives of the "Positive Initiative" Association, which protects the rights of people living with HIV, say that this decision has succeeded in overcoming a discriminatory barrier.
"People living with HIV live their lives like other people, start families and give birth to offspring. In 2019 alone, we received five complaints from couples who wanted to adopt children and could not, due to the status," says the president of the "Positive Initiative" Association, Ruslan Poverga.
"HIV status will not be taken into account, ie it will not be indicated and thus discrimination for these people will be excluded and, respectively, they will be able to adopt or receive guardianship, curatorship without impediments," said Tatiana Zatac, interim Minister of Health.
This decision was also welcomed by the United Nations, which in 2019 analyzed the legislation in our country and came up with several recommendations.
"It's often about couples who want to adopt equally HIV-positive children, whose parents have died, often from AIDS-related causes. Respectively, I personally know a few couples who, even before this order was drafted, fought, went to court and obtained the right to adopt children," said the manager of UNAIDS Moldova, Svetlana Plămădeală.
According to official data, in the Republic of Moldova, there are 9,400 patients diagnosed with HIV. Although the disease is incurable, treatment can help keep it under control.
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