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Volume 355:2505-2508 December 14, 2006 Number 24
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HIV Injustice in Libya — Scapegoating Foreign Medical Professionals
Elisabeth Rosenthal, M.D.

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On December 19, 2006, a Libyan court is scheduled to announce its verdict in the trial of five Bulgarian nurses and one Palestinian doctor who have languished in prison for 8 years on charges that they intentionally injected more than 400 Libyan children with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in 1998, while they were guest workers at a children's hospital. In 2004, the six were tried and sentenced to death. A new trial was ordered last year after international protests, but scientists and politicians are worried about the defendants' fate.

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Dr. Rosenthal is a reporter for the International Herald Tribune.



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