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HIV Adoptions From Abroad on Rise

Posted Sep 2, 08 1:16 PM CDT in World,  Science & Health 

(Newser) – More US families are adopting HIV-infected children from overseas, primarily in Ethiopia, the AP reports. Stats from one international agency show 38 adoptions of infected Ethiopian children this year, up from 13 in 2007 and four in 2006. HIV adoptions have also increased in China, Ghana, Haiti, and Russia, say US adoption agencies, though at significantly lower numbers.

Roughly 14,000 Ethiopian children are born with HIV annually. Parents say the disease is more manageable stateside, and US officials find the adoptions pose no public health threat. "I feel like I'm on the cutting edge of making an impact on this epidemic," said one parent. "It's given us a chance to be ambassadors, and our children to be ambassadors."

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Michael Leavitt, US Health and Human Services Secretary, in Sun Valley, Idaho, July 10, 2008. Leavitt says HIV-adoptees pose no publish health threat.   (AP Photo, file)
Belane, left, and Solomon, who have HIV, play on a trampoline at the home of their adoptive parents' Erin and Joshua Henderson, Aug. 11, 2008, in western Wyoming.   (AP Photo)
Margaret Fleming and 10-month-old Luca, an HIV positive adoptee. Fleming shares her Oak Park, Ill., home with her seven adopted children, several of whom have HIV.   (KRT Photos)
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