Russian children left by their HIV-positive mothers are doomed to be social outcasts

Nobody is ever going to adopt Sasha and Kolya. The boys know that eventually they will move to some other place. Sometimes they even start packing their belongings. According to Svetlana Mikhailova, a teacher for the handicapped children, the boys are well-developed in terms of a social environment, they can take care of themselves. But there is a lack of communication because they can only mingle with younger children in the orphanage. The boys had been susceptible to colds in the past. Lately the situation has improved after they began taking specific antiviral drugs. Should their therapy continue on a daily basis and doctors are capable of watching over them regularly, the boys might live a long and normal life.

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“The disease is horrendous just because AIDS is currently considered fatal,” says pediatrician Olga Tananokina. “The infected kids look like other kids, but their blood tests show rising levels of the human immunodeficiency virus. They get better after taking a specific treatment. Children like that should be kept under the supervision of doctors at all times,” says Tanankina.

In the meantime, Sasha and Kolya share their dreams with younger children. They dream that someday they will have a big nice house with a cat and a dog in it.

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