Russians with diagnoses "HIV" and "hepatitis C" were allowed to adopt children

Men and women diagnosed with HIV and hepatitis C will now be allowed to adopt children and arrange custody of them.

This was made possible by a decision of the Constitutional Court of Russia, which declared illegal the ban on such actions for people with human immunodeficiency virus and hepatitis C, who were infected with these ailments in hospital conditions.

The reason for the decision was the claim of a married couple from the Moscow region. Spouses live together for 8 years, raise a three-year-old child. Six years ago, a woman went to the hospital, she missed a miscarriage. In providing medical assistance, she was infected with HIV.

The couple had to resort to an IVF procedure with the participation of a surrogate mother.

As it should be, the woman who endured the boy refused him in favor of his biological parents. But the registrar refused to register biological mother as a mother, and the guardianship, despite the fact that the child grew and was raised by parents, refused to adopt, referring to the diagnosis of the mother.

The Constitutional Court emphasizes that the parent who is being treated is not an HIV dissident; it may well be the adopter or guardian, this will not affect either his constitutional rights, or the rights of a child who has the full right to grow up in a family.