[photo source: Robert Miller's Flickr]

As reported by CNN, 393 children at a Libyan hospital were deliberately infected with HIV/AIDS. 50 of the children have already died.

To date, five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor, who have been in jail since 1999 and were previously sentenced to death, are being re-tried for causing the outbreak. It has been suggested, however, that the nurses may be freed if "Bulgaria pays compensation to the children and their families, who have demanded $5.5 billion".

I wonder, though, if the foreign health workers are guilty. Or, if it was more of a case of poor hygiene and ineffective process in the hospital which allowed the spread of the disease.

Some of the kids have died and the rest are still suffering. Billions of dollars wouldn't reverse things for these children. I just hope that this will never ever happen again.