Bulgaria, EU move to secure freedom for HIV medics
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Bulgaria and the European Union called on Libya on Wednesday to transfer six foreign medics to Sofia, after Tripoli lifted their death sentences for infecting hundreds of children with the HIV virus.
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Six medics sentenced to life in prison in Libya for allegedly infecting children with HIV came home to Bulgaria on Tuesday and were greeted with tears and hugs &#151; and a presidential pardon that allowed them to walk free after 8 1/2 years behind bars.
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Efforts to free six foreign medics sentenced to death for infecting Libyan children with HIV may be near a conclusion after "positive" European initiatives, a son of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi said on Sunday.
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Politics: 22 October 2004, Friday. The outgoing European Commission President Romano Prodi has talked several times to the Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi about the fate of the five Bulgarian medics sentenced to ...
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The European Union, backed by France&#39;s first lady, pushed Monday for an end to the eight-year ordeal of six foreign medics jailed for life for infecting hundreds of Libyan children with HIV.
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EU foreign ministers agreed to lift an arms embargo on Libya on Monday, despite fears for Bulgarian and Palestinian medical workers sentenced to death there, but
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The UN&#39;s Children&#39;s Fund and the European Union on Tuesday called for an end to discrimination against HIV-positive and Gypsy children in Romanian schools.
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Six foreign medics convicted of infecting hundreds of Libyan children with HIV were freed on Tuesday after a "full partnership" deal between Tripoli and the European Union ended their eight-year ordeal.
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BRUSSELS, Nov 1 (IPS) - A leading development group has welcomed EU  proposals to allow export of cheap medicines to poor countries  fighting HIV/AIDS and other killer diseases.
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Bulgaria said it hoped Libya would finalise a deal on Monday to free six foreign medics convicted of infecting hundreds of Libyan children with HIV, a move that would boost Tripoli's relations with the West.
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Officials in Sofia on Thursday lauded a Libyan vow to spare executions of five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor convicted of causing an AIDS outbreak at a children's hospital, but reiterated Tripoli ...
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Politics: 9 December 2004, Thursday. The families of the Libyan children infected with HIV demand that Bulgaria pays EUR 10 M to each of them, the head of the association of these families announced Thursday.
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Around twenty thousand Bulgarians demonstrated their solidarity in Sofia with five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor sentenced to death in a Libyan AIDS case.
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Bulgaria donated $56.6 million in  Soviet-era debt owned by Libya as its contribution to a deal  that led to the release of six medics convicted of infecting  Libyan children with HIV.
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Five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor convicted of infecting hundreds of Libyan children with the HIV virus arrived in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia Tuesday, following their release after serving eight years in jail on the charges.
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EU officials are in Libya to try to resolve the case of medics sentenced to death for infecting children with HIV.
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Five Bulgarian nurses sentenced to death in Libya for allegedly infecting children with HIV plan to seek compensation from Tripoli for illegal arrest and torture, Bulgaria's justice minister said Monday.