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Bulgaria forgives $56.6 mln of Libyan debt
02 Aug 2007 12:45:10 GMT
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SOFIA, Aug 2 (Reuters) - The Bulgarian government decided on Thursday to forgive $56.6 million in Soviet-era debt it is owed by Libya after a deal led to the release of six medics convicted of infecting Libyan children with HIV.

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A woman is given a free HIV/AIDS test in Lira, northern Uganda, September 9, 2007. Nearly two decades of war between the Lord's Resistance Army and the government has left the region's health care system in ruins.


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