When photojournalist Jen Mosher and her partner decided to use adoption to build their family, they made a rare decision. They wanted to adopt HIV positive children. Not happy that many adoptive parents go for healthy children, the mother of two adopted children decided to journal her feelings after she got tired of the unnecessary stigma associated with HIV.
Now one of her posts on living with two HIV positive children has gone viral, with the write up having been shared over 37,000 times. She told Buzzfeed;
After doing some research and talking with other families, we absolutely knew that we could do it and that HIV was a manageable chronic disease.
We took a leap of faith and asked our adoption agency if there were HIV children available for adoption in China, and were told, ‘Probably not. China has lots of HIV-positive children in orphanages but they are believed to be unadoptable so they do not make them available for adoption.’
In spite of this, the very next day, we got matched with our HIV-positive daughter, and then later, we also got matched with and adopted another amazing HIV-positive child.
Read her touching essay below...









