The first gay couple who married in the north-eastern Argentine province of Santa Fe, Damian Pighin, 42, and Ariel Vijarra, 39, decided to expand their family in 2011. But due to many reasons, they were disappointed time and again. Their prayers were finally heard in 2014 when a newborn was ready to be adopted.

The couple from Rosario got a call to adopt an infant 28 days’ old suffering from HIV. The infant was put up for adoption and because she was HIV positive 10 families had rejected her. But when this married gay couple got the call from the adoption center they could not contain their happiness.

They were informed about the infant’s condition of HIV, but they still decided to visit the infant. Ariel shared her first meeting with her, “As soon as I saw her, I felt that she was part of my life. The connection was immediate. We held her in our arms, gave her the bottle and she looked at us with her eyes wide open without crying.”

They named the little girl Olivia and she responded to HIV treatment very well. Within no time she started gaining weight and the couple received a piece of amazing news related to her treatment. The reports showed that there were no signs of any kind of virus in her body after the treatment.

The family grew further in 2015 when Victoria came into their lives. A mother on hearing Olivia’s news contacted the couple and asked for adopting her child. So Ariel and Damian welcomed Victoria into their family. The siblings are of the same age just some months apart from each other. They both will celebrate their fifth birthday this year.

The couple works for a non-governmental organization that helps couples adopt unwanted children. Although there is no cure for HIV, medicine has progressed very much and has a cure which stops the virus from further spreading in the body. There are medications available which reduced the amount and significance of virus in the body.

If a person suffers from HIV and the virus is no longer detectable in the body it means that the person is no longer suffering from HIV. The virus is no longer infectious and the virus can no longer damage the body’s immune system. A better cure for the disease is yet to be discovered and doctors from different places are still finding it.

But Doctor Annemarie Wensing, a virologist at the University Medical Center Utrecht, shared that these cases will inspire the once impossible cases. She concluded by saying this ‘will inspire people’ to believe the ‘cure is not a dream’ but is, in fact, ‘reachable’.

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