Move to cut Libya Aids sentences
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A European Union medical delegation is visiting Libya to assess the plight of some 400 children infected with HIV. In May, five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor were sentenced to death for intentionally infecting them.
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Aids activist Zackie Achmat has joined the chorus of calls for TB treatment to be combined with HIV testing and anti-retroviral (ARV) treatment, echoing claims that it could save the lives of up to 500 000 HIV-infected Africans a year.
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The head of the Bush administration's global AIDS plan said he is taking steps that would permit the United States to give more money to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria this year than previously planned.
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Libya proposed Sunday to discuss commuting the death sentences of five Bulgarian nurses it has convicted of deliberately causing a HIV outbreak at a hospital, if Bulgaria would offer compensation, the ...
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PARIS, Aug 27 (IPS) - When the government of Libyan leader Muammar  Gaddafi freed five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor  after eight years in prison last month, it marked not only the  latest twist in Gaddafi's idiosyncratic rule, but was seen  as the opening salvo of French President Nicolas Sarkozy's  new diplomatic modus operandi in Africa and beyond.
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Libya says death sentences on five Bulgarian nurses convicted of spreading HIV could be re-examined.
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Libya has paid funds to more than half the families of Libyan children with HIV under a deal that could free six foreign medics condemned to death for infecting them, a spokesman for the families said on Tuesday.
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Libya begins distributing funds to the families of children with HIV under a deal that could free six foreign medics.
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A new five-year AIDS action plan is designed to halve the number of HIV infections in South Africa and ensure 80 percent of sufferers get access to treatment, a top official told parliament Tuesday.
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TRIPOLI, Libya -- Several eastern European countries would forgive Libyan debt dating back to the Cold War under a proposal to compensate families whose children were allegedly infected with the AIDS virus by five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor, a victims' advocate said Saturday.
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Libya&#39;s highest judicial body commuted to life in prison on Tuesday the sentences of six foreign medics who have been on death row for infecting children with the AIDS virus, an official said.
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The Bush administration's global AIDS plan has helped put at least 25,000 people on antiretroviral therapy since it began disbursing money in February to organizations and governments in 15 targeted countries.
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Libya has said it will discuss reversing the death penalty for five Bulgarian nurses convicted of infecting children with HIV if Bulgaria offers compensation.
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Libya's Supreme Court will rule on July 11 on an appeal by six foreign medics sentenced to death for infecting Libyan children with HIV, marking the final stage of a trial that has affected Libya's ties with the West.
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Libyan judges are to rule on Bulgarian medics facing the death penalty over infecting children with HIV.
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A Libyan court sentenced five Bulgarian  nurses and a Palestinian doctor to death on Tuesday for  deliberately infecting hundreds of children with the HIV virus  that causes AIDS.
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Libya's Supreme Court upheld on Wednesday death sentences on six foreign medics for infecting Libyan children with HIV, but the judgment could clear the way for the government to free them.