AIDS case deal may forgive Libyan debt
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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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"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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The deal is part of a new international agreement to forgive 80 per cent of Iraq&#39;s international debt, amounting to a total of about $150 billion.
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LONDON -- The British government offered a sweeping plan yesterday for the Group of Seven nations to dramatically increase aid to the developing world and to forgive 100 percent of Africa's $70 billion in debt.
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Germany's development minister said Friday the Group of Eight member states had agreed on a program worth more than $60 billion to combat the spread of HIV/AIDs in Africa.
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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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SIRTE, Libya  - A deal to resolve the case of five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor sentenced to death for deliberately infecting Libyan children with HIV may be close, the children's families said on Friday.
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Former US President Bill Clinton's foundation and Indian drugs companies in new deal to help HIV children.
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LONDON, Feb 5 (IPS) - In response to a massive civil society campaign   spearheaded by Nelson Mandela to make poverty history, G7  finance  ministers agreed Saturday to examine debt relief for the  poorest  countries on a ''case-by-case''  basis.
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Former US president Bill Clinton said his foundation had secured a deal for Zambia to access cheap HIV/AIDS drugs, thereby helping the poor southern African nation save millions of dollars.
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Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, easing his country's way back into the international fold, on Tuesday became the first Arab leader to promise compensation for Jews who were forced from their homes due to religious tension.
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A Libyan court is to deliver its verdict in the retrial of six foreign medics accused of infecting children with HIV.
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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&#39;s top legal body meets on Tuesday to decide whether to uphold or revoke death sentences on six foreign medics convicted of infecting children with the AIDS virus, with a compensation deal for victims likely to win them a reprieve.
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Families of Libyan children infected with AIDS said on Thursday they had reached an agreement with Britain&#39;s outgoing Prime Minister Tony Blair which could save five Bulgarians and a Palestinian doctor from the death sentence and bring medical help to the sick infants.
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Libya&#39;s top legal body was to meet on Monday to decide whether to confirm or annul death sentences on six foreign medics convicted of infecting children with the AIDS virus, possibly the final stage in a case that has dragged on for eight years.
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The government said Tuesday it would donate one billion pounds (1.4 billion euros, two billion dollars) over eight years to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.