Adele Brard
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/ 29 June 2006

Russia’s secret children

Nestled in a cradle at Moscow’s Hospital Number Two, the three-week-old baby girl has no name — or much of a future. Born to an HIV-positive mother, she was abandoned at birth and is now destined to grow up in an orphanage. In fact, the infant has a fair chance of perfect health, since two-thirds of children born of HIV-positive mothers are not themselves infected.