More than 400 children were infected with the AIDS virus at a Libyan children’s hospital in the 1990s. Moammar Kadafi called it a deliberate act by foreign workers, but some now openly question his role.
Photo: Mohammed Gadir and son Wanis, 14, in front of a social service agency in Benghazi, Libya. The boy was one of more than 400 children infected with the AIDS virus in the late 1990s at the city’s state-run pediatric hospital. Credit: Yusuf Buik / For The Times

More than 400 children were infected with the AIDS virus at a Libyan children’s hospital in the 1990s. Moammar Kadafi called it a deliberate act by foreign workers, but some now openly question his role.

Photo: Mohammed Gadir and son Wanis, 14, in front of a social service agency in Benghazi, Libya. The boy was one of more than 400 children infected with the AIDS virus in the late 1990s at the city’s state-run pediatric hospital. Credit: Yusuf Buik / For The Times

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