this i have zone two girls are like their mother perfectly healthy this i have to have a separate refrigerator filled with medicine. some take half some a quarter everyone has their own ghosts. that the. but seven o'clock shot every morning and evening the kids and their father take their medication yes science cannot afford to forget as their lives depend on it. i just wanted to help at least one person who you could say i felt that when i was having contractions before giving birth to anya a doctor came by and said oh that's the one with the husband who's a child the positive and then all the doctors suddenly changed and they started to

protect themselves like they were going into space. ten facemasks fifteen pairs of gloves everything they had i was thrown into an isolation ward and my husband wasn't allowed anywhere near me. during most of the nine hundred ninety two it was a hospital that handed down their verdict you might say. they diagnosed me with her weight order of the bed was smashed up or leave the mattress and i was just dumped on a rubbish. and then they discharged me from hospital with a temperature of more than thirty nine degrees celsius. over to me and i felt like a complete social outcast where you know good morning everyone everyone i knew relatives neighbors friends. they all just turned their backs on me or when you had your own you know wider where i was devastated well for a month or two probably i didn't want to talk to anyone and i wanted to be left

alone he would put it on so i started taking drugs. that was my way to kill the pain to combat the depression. it was a really terrible time. when i was given a black eye in a fight. they hit me on the head with a hammer. and. that was what i understood i knew that i had to find some new direction to move in they are near enough another and so. that's how i found the church. ten years ago i saw an absolutely shattered life at my door seemed it was just a couple of steps away from the grave they don't even notice people like us in fact they want to push them away. came here with a broken soul and a desperate future she didn't have a problem with drugs but she does have other problems when you they brought her to the rehabilitation center in handcuffs.

thank you god for your sons and daughters forgive us and break because in these people's lives. break the devils call us and bless the. blood of. the rehab they fell in love and they came to me they said they were in love they want to start a family and i said no way i don't even want to hear about that you're a should be positive and she isn't so don't do that please but they came back again saying we love each other we really mean it with us you know that if you're not there it was only after we saw him for the third time to ask him to marry us that he said ok guys it's your fate it's your decision. and then he gave us his blessing and he married off. the first pregnancy was very difficult. for expecting twins and already had names for them. and you survived the boy died

in childbirth after the tragedy. husband to adopt a child they decided to take one who was a hiv positive. after people learned about the adoption they were really shocked as it turned out it was the first official adoption of an inch any positive child in ukraine. children study in an ordinary village school the lower supposed to protect those living with hiv from social discrimination but only their adoptive mother can protect them from ignorance. they're related if the school had to look on it one day i received a phone call from the headmaster i was told that some of the parents there were causing a fuss my kids had hiv that could be passed on and they were worried about that i had to meet the parents and explain to them that for the virus to transfer my child would have to cut open their arm along with yours and rub the two together. only

after that debate calmed down a bit but i still get looks from time to time. it . all. on. with their children so they sometimes get into scraps and sometimes they bleed the main thing the parents were afraid of is that blood would get on somebody and they would catch the virus i try to make sure this doesn't happen i'm always with them. yeah we. do the best that we just asked not to fight bite or pinch one another not to eat from the same. look in the. saliva contains a small percent of the virus but this is so minute that infection from saliva is

impossible because hold an old jets like cups forks and shared bathrooms and towels cannot transmit the virus with your water because. you don't was a bit when we took iraq home she was fine she could run and jump before everything was fine but last year she literally started to fall tourny is and couldn't walk or jump to the hospital for a checkup the doctors told us she was suffering from an overdose they said her medical treatment was all wrong. and then here are my families and friends. they said. there is mom. though as a dad and that's your right and the privilege to be me she spent about four months in the hospital mostly on a drip from one of them want to they were trying to flush out all those chemicals

which is now we hope and pray and believe in a miracle we asked god that chilled run again just the way she was do you know i'm sick of you. you know we've changed her treatment she needs to go through a series of massages. but the thing is that now we treat the virus but damage her liver. come here baby. what's wrong. you know what happened. why are you crying. and i promise you i said that i had another tragedy in week thirty two or thirty three of the pregnancy i gave birth in which surely the boys died and it was the first one within five

minutes the other within two days and this year they would have turned four. there were well if they had been in the unhealthy we would probably never ever have europe you're also sure. we didn't plan to have you ever actually we just thought i was going to have two boys and that would be it. when they came to sasha's adoption but i refused to take her and even though they asked us to do so three times at that time i wasn't ready to make the decision either morally or psychologically she wasn't just him either positive like all the other kids and she also had stage four aids and tuberculosis was. my dream was to have parents to have

a mom and dad for them to come and take me home. there are many people ready to take kids like us. the doctors said she wouldn't be in this world for a long time i touched her head i had clumps of hair and my hand every morning her pillow was covered with their own hair and i thought i had to buy a week for her and we were told she was going to live about a year or two at most and i said ok let it be a year or two but in a family. her feel it finally when i call children hiv six hours the same as a flower you simply just have to water and nourish them that was what we needed to do we nursed her like a flower. it was the first new year's eve i spent with a family. i got a lot of presents. that was a dollar. and

a lot of addresses. so huge and believe a ball to me i've never had something like that before. she blossomed like a rose we got her better and she finally blossomed this year she's going to turn fourteen we draw we seeing we do gymnastics we can do it all more. hostile to say. god. all let me just you know. i am the spot gonna be no no no this is just this is completely different no it was a good it's about your treatment it's all over now the cells have grown on rick you know doc was that all the doctors just tried their shoulders and they can't understand it i think it's all about the family going on when you're really fail at things can change quickly i think as easy as can be treated with love warm

affection when you can see. the late sixty's but the truth of the you call it is that the because that's who he was that he would see. them all ok. let me let me i want to let me ask you a point. here on this network it's where we're having a debate we have our knives out.

the scientists banks to get into the race will be i'd like to talk about the surveillance. in. iraq.

is easy to. get done thank you everyone for that standing ovation for the family. greats. good at that moment it was

like a dream come true a dream come true because we're just ordinary people from a village. and it was so fantastic to stand there in front of the whole country and to hear the applause of the elites of the politicians and the famous athletes of ukraine it was amazing. but there is it's quite heavy. it's just good for cracking nuts he gets no good for anything else. tippett cried and that was that. was the driver got all the money i make mostly goes towards medication. takes

a lot to get them back on their feet after chemotherapy you know. every time we leave the village we drive here past our own finished house. well they promised us a good home for the kids every one of us to have his own room said one politician when he was a successful businessman. but he was just good enough to pull concrete for the foundations. i think it was a p.r. stunt to run up we've got to. look at what the front hole was to be here. in the lounge with a t.v. set. and a big terrace. to go to our second floor was going to have several bedrooms each for two people.

michelle has two sisters they live one hundred kilometers away from us. never seen them though his mother found out that she was hiv positive when she was in the maternity ward and she immediately gave him up. a while later she ended up in prison his grandmother took the girls because they were healthy but misha had to go to an orphanage. breakthrough or do it once he came back from school really upset he said he was never going to go back there ever again so i asked him what happened with him he said they told him professor i just burst out laughing he didn't understand yet so i told him if you're able to become a real professor i'll be completely happy to have a bright sun like that he thought it was a rude word to. me sure and were adopted right after the twins death the

doctors tried to convince her that she would not be able to have children again at that point already had eight adopted children as well as their own daughter. everyone says were a bit crazy but i really felt something inside my heart something like if you was to take another two or not be blessed so it happened like that we adopted two children and i got pregnant mediately their daughter was born perfectly healthy. once a girl wrote to me she said she'd heard my story and decided to marry a man with each i v but things didn't go well she got infected and how the nature of the positive child. doesn't promote them i know that i don't have it but still sometimes i have doubts that maybe i do but i know that i'm not in fact. that. quite often and those couples have healthy

children the father cannot in fact the child the virus can be transmitted only by the mother. is the mother doesn't have it during conception it means the child is going to be one hundred percent healthy looks to put the little. fellow. can i pick up my test results. when did you have the test yesterday. here is everything's fine now the negative yes thank you goodbye. you know please don't follow my example you know it can be dangerous for your health. back boys dress right. good morning good morning. i use the same cups and plates that the children with.

i was never afraid of. but in the beginning i couldn't understand why all the officials didn't want to have tea when they came to visit. some point i just realized they were scared. they were afraid of getting infected so i want to say once again. people like us a lot of them are amazing. probably the biggest children of the former soviet union. these are kids who used to live in basements. they were addicted to various sorts of drugs. or. second one i officially adopted. in the place where i usually put the number maybe i remember. a few was the

past it was the first to tell us about the orphans and the homeless children. should have their own family. to get involved in that because of him he would. from the age of seven to nine i was living on the streets asking people for money. just. the rest of the money cigarettes. we took in from the streets. he ran away a few times he was a pickpocket and he was always up to something i got him adopted but i didn't even have my own place at the time right at that time you started his family shelter. one day of game he invited him to his place i was sort of war in the metallic would

steal something right off but it was ok so in three or four days you have again he told me to leave the boy then and he did kind of well so we decided to leave it at that. sort of brings out my adopted son. and we're getting ready for a bike ride we've already travelled about a thousand kilometers across the whole of ukraine from bill to kiev through which we've also gone to run most of russia we want to travel around the world and tell everyone to adult children. guys. i want you to have a really good ride today you always make at least fifty. much easier. when you do we carry the message about adopting children. a main goal is to see

that all of the orphanage is a closed down. so that every child will have a place of their own. and i don't just mean good looking blue eyed ones i'm also talking about the handicapped kids with cerebral palsy the ones with aids or hiv. i think. regardless of how sick they may be here with. you. brought your own home he was nervous tattered. close and look like a wolf i opened the car door and saw him there he was filthy with lots of dirt under his fingernails there was a cell phone in this hands and he looked really scared i didn't know how to start talking to him i asked him if he wanted some sunflower seeds he said no i asked when i scream i guess. i've got some pictures here. this is what he looked like when i first brought him here.

it was his own father who beat him like this. he did it because i forgot to take some pills he asked me if i did and i said no so he started to hit me or he didn't want to hear any explanations he just wanted a result so being depressed and drunk he just. the boy was left to fend for himself. he didn't let me outside so i started to run away trying to make some money. we searched through dumpsters looking for scrap metal. causative nobody wanted to make friends with me he chased me spat on me.

when his father became sick we went to see him. he had his own money box to go i wanted to give him some cash so he could buy a present for his dad but he said he was going to use his own savings so he broke open the box went to a storm the best things he could have and some things that he probably never tried himself. this is my real father. when i saw in the last time in hospital he was really happy to see me there i told him about my trips to the crimea. he told me to be a good boy take my medicine at the right time and look after my health. i saw that his father was almost crying. to forgive him for everything. and i could see that the boy had forgiven him and they were reconciled there and then. this old man died.

just wasn't interested. he went down a couple of the. sound and. i thought that he just probably didn't like it. go bad still he wasn't happy about that it wasn't happy about anything. he just came up to. he said he doesn't need any. except. moment out of the water and i love.

that i was i have eleven kids. years old with a preview of in eight years we've become the happiest parents in the world. we have managed to get into those lives. with mother way your kids' lives that nobody's interested in children who are trying to spend their whole lifetimes the shelters of which you all finishes. and. they taught us to believe and trust people and i still need to learn more even at my each other about how to fight for one's rights in one's life the most important thing is to believe it and that's what a lot of grown ups have to learn from them and. you

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go on tell marvin coming to you live from new york city and here's what's coming up tonight on the big picture. president obama promised the most transparent administration ever wanted to go over the white house but the scandals of the past month seem to say otherwise and now there's news that the n.s.a. the national security administration is secretly collecting americans phone records and perhaps much much more so what happened to transparency in washington also yesterday president obama chose susan rice to be his new national security adviser in a move this sure to ruffle republican feathers but does the president still care about working with republicans or has he does.