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United Press International - December 1, 2005
The children distributed badges and stickers to travelers as they brandished placards demanding capital punishment for Bulgarian nurses convicted of having injected 400 Libyan children with the virus since 1998.
Among the 400 young HIV carriers, 51 have died from AIDS so far.
A Libyan court convicted the five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor of the crime and sentenced them to death in May last year.
The Higher Court is now looking into a challenge of the sentence made by the convicts.
Also on the occasion of AIDS Day, a nationwide awareness campaign was launched in Sudan about the dangers of the disease in a country where 300,000 people under 25 are suffering from AIDS.
The campaign, prepared by the government in cooperation with the United Nations' Program on AIDS, focused on the dangers of the disease on children who are infected by mothers carrying the virus.
According to U.N. figures, 23,000 Sudanese have died from AIDS, leaving behind them 60,000 orphaned children.
Campaign spokesman Ali Mehdi said "AIDS is not only the problem of infected people, but it is the problem of every member of the Sudanese society and combating the disease is everyone's responsibility.
"This campaign, which will go on for five years, is our chance to make a change in the lives of our children," he added.
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