Bulgarian President Meets Kids With HIV
Bulgarian President Georgi Parvanov met children with HIV in eastern Libya days before a court is to rule on an appeal by five Bulgarian nurses sentenced to death on charges that they deliberately gave HIV-tainted blood to more than 400 children there.
Parvanov toured the hospital in Benghazi that saw an outbreak of HIV/AIDS in 1999. Later he visited the nurses in a Tripoli prison. He said Bulgaria would help with treatment for the children. The nurses, jailed since 1999, say they confessed under torture and Libya has made them scapegoats rather than admit the HIV infections were caused by poor hygiene.
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