Russian babies being abandoned in hospitals because of HIV

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Russia has one of the fastest growing Aids epidemics in the world, with 100 new infections every day. Increasingly, women and their infants are being affected.

Latest figures show 22,000 babies have been born to HIV-positive women. And many are being abandoned by their mothers into the care of the state.

It's sad that mothers have to abandon their baby's because they have HIV. The baby most likely has it also, so why not keep and raise the baby?