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Libya’s HIV-infected Babies

The infection of hundreds of children with HIV is one of the darker moments in Libya’s recent history. Mike Elkin talks to the mothers who will no longer be bullied into silence.

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Zakia Saltani has been warned not to talk to the press. She doesn’t care. She has waited 13 years to tell her story, and the Libyan government’s threats can’t stop her now.

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