The huge international outcry that followed last months unjust decision by a Libyan judge to sentence six health professionals to death is hardly surprising. The charge that they deliberately infected more than 400 children with HIV in 1998 was baseless. The authorities ignored a body of evidence demonstrating that the cause of the outbreak was the use of contaminated medical material in the hospital in Benghazi, and that many of the children were infected long before the medics even began working at the hospital (see page 7).
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