HIV is not a hindrance: in Krasnoyarsk, the court recognized the right to be the guardian of a grandson for an HIV-infected grandmother

In Krasnoyarsk, a decision was made that was the first and revolutionary for Russia. For HIV-infected grandmother recognized the legal right to become the guardian of the child.

The boy's mother died, and last fall his grandmother established custody of the child. In the district administration at the place of residence, the families were outraged and guardianship were canceled, citing the fact that the woman is HIV-positive.

Then the grandmother promised to go to court and reached. The servants of Themis reviewed all the arguments, invited independent experts to the meeting room and concluded that HIV-infection cannot prevent a woman from guarding her grandson.

She has positive characteristics from her place of work, normal living conditions, she regularly visits the hospital and receives supportive treatment, she does not shy away from taking medicine.

The refusal to establish custody of the child was declared illegal; the administration, which judged in its own way, sent a copy of the court decision. It obliges officials to reconsider the issue and recognize the woman as a guardian, to return the boy from the orphanage to the family.

More recently, the law banning adoption and guardianship for HIV-infected people and patients with hepatitis was abolished, with full compliance of candidates for adoptive parents or guardians with the rest of the legal requirements.

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