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HIV Positive Russian Beauty Queen Perturbed About Discrimination Against AIDS Victims
Izambayeva, 28, has been seeking custody of 10-year-old Sasha since their mother died in February, but Russian authorities sent her an official refusal, citing her "incurable" disease.
It is an another indication that, even as governments and campaigners mark World AIDS Day this Tuesday, discrimination is still the norm rather than the exception for many people living with the condition.
The irony is that Izambayeva has become something of a poster child for the campaign to win better treatment for HIV-positive people, being crowned "Miss Positive" in Russia's first beauty pageant for women with HIV in 2005.
Officials still consider her as an unfit mother even though she has married and raised two healthy, HIV-negative children since contracting the virus from a short-lived summer romance in 2003.
"Infectious diseases are cause for denying child custody, until cured," the letter from social services officials reads.
"Your illness qualifies as infectious."
Activists say cases like Izambayeva's are no surprise in Russia, where many HIV-positive people hide their status from their peers and employers for fear of ostracism.
"Before I thought I had to hide myself, isolate myself from society," said Izambayeva, a former hairdresser turned activist from the Volga River city of Kazan, some 800 kilometres (500 miles) from Moscow.
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