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Philippines-Libya: 40 Filipino nurses cleared in Libya in AIDS case

Agence France-Presse - October 25, 1999

MANILA, Oct 25 (AFP) - Forty Filipino nurses and medical workers have been cleared by a Libyan court of allegations they were responsible for a spread of the AIDS virus at a children's hospital there, the Philippine foreign office said Monday.

Foreign Undersecretary Benjamin Domingo said the Filipinos were now allowed to return home after the People's Court of Libya dismissed the accusations.

The nurses and medical workers had been accused along with other foreign workers of spreading the human immunodeficiency virus that causes AIDS to 600 children at a government hospital in the Libyan city of Benghazi in March.

But during an investigation, it was found that the "the People's Court has no evidence" against the Filipinos, said Philippine deputy head of mission to Libya Ricardo Endaya in a report to the home office.

AIDS is the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome which destroys the body's immune defense system making it vulnerable to diseases and almost always leads to death.

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