Bulgarians demonstrate for condemned HIV medics
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Thousands of people demonstrated across  Bulgaria on Friday to call for the release of five Bulgarian  nurses and a Palestinian doctor condemned to death for  infecting hundreds of Libyan children with HIV.
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Health ministers and experts from across Europe are meeting in Lithuania to discuss efforts to prevent an epidemic of HIV/Aids. They will debate an EU report which says rates of new infections in Russia and ...
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Hundreds of AIDS activists packed the city's cathedral Wednesday to show support for the dismissed deputy health minister they believe was targeted for speaking out about the AIDS crisis and other problems in the nation's health service.
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Libya's Supreme Court will hear an appeal next week by five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor sentenced to death on charges of infecting hundreds of Libyan children with the HIV virus, Bulgaria said on Friday.
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EU doctors visit HIV-infected children in Libya after signals that death sentences on six  medics could be re-examined.
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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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"The indemnities are financed by international contributions in the form of debt remission"  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.The six foreign medics have been sentenced to death in the case, and Libyan officials have said a settlement could pave the way for their release.Jailed since 1999, the six deny having infected more than 400 children and say their confessions were extracted under torture. Experts and outside scientific reports have said the children were contaminated as a result of unhygienic conditions at a hospital in the northeastern coastal city of Benghazi. Fifty of the infected children died. Read more
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Six foreign medics jailed for life in Libya for infecting children with the AIDS virus were freed and flown to Bulgaria on Tuesday, after the European Union pledged to improve ties with Tripoli.
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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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Left to right, Bulgarian nurses Cristiana Valcheva and Valya Chervenyashka, Palestinian doctor Ashraf Hajouj, and Bulgarian nurses Valentina Siropulo and Nasya Nenova speak to an unidentified man before the ...Comment
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Bulgarian judicial officials meet Wednesday to seek the transfer from Libya of five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor after their death sentences were commuted to life in prison for infecting hundreds of children with the AIDS virus.
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A court convicted five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor Tuesday of deliberately infecting 400 children with HIV and sentenced them to death, despite scientific evidence the youngsters had the virus ...Comment
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The appeals trial of five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor sentenced to death in Libya in a high-profile AIDS case will take place on June 20, the Bulgarian foreign ministry said Friday.
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Six foreign health workers jailed in Libya for years on charges of deliberately infecting children with the AIDS virus were convicted and sentenced to death in a case that has long sparked international outrage ...Comment
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Efforts to free six foreign medics sentenced to death for infecting Libyan children with the HIV virus have yet to result in a deal on compensation, a group representing the families of the children said on Sunday.
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A settlement has been reached with families of HIV-infected children in the case of five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor, the spokesman for Libya's Gadhafi foundation said Tuesday.
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Bulgaria is set to begin moves to secure the transfer from Libya of six medics convicted of infecting children with HIV.