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Should We Expand Our Special Needs Checklist to Include HIV? - Weekend Wisdom

Should We Expand Our Special Needs Checklist to Include HIV? - Weekend Wisdom

Update: 2025-10-25
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Question: My husband and I are considering whether we will open our special needs consideration to include children who are HIV+. We have already been approved to adopt from India, and as our home study update approaches, we are taking a good, hard look at the Special Needs list again. I was listening to your podcast episode on this topic from 2013 and wondered if this was worth an updated episode? Has much changed for families living with HIV?

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Should We Expand Our Special Needs Checklist to Include HIV? - Weekend Wisdom

Should We Expand Our Special Needs Checklist to Include HIV? - Weekend Wisdom

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