2. • Ethics - is the branch of philosophy relating to morals and moral principles
• Bioethics - are also called biomedical ethics they are the moral dilemmas and issues
of advance medicine and medical research
• Unintentional torts - such negligence,occur when the patient is injured as a result
of the healthcare professional’s not exercising the ordinary standard of care
• Terminally ill - one whose death is determined to be inevitable
• Statues - are laws enacted by state and federal legislatures
• Statue of limitations - the period of time that a patient has to file a lawsuit
3. • In 1998 over 400 hundred children in libya where deliberately injected with H.I.V (human
immunodeficiency virus)
• The children where injected by a Palestinian medical intern and five Bulgarian nurses (often
termed “medics”)
• The medical intern and five medics where offered to work in libya for a higher salary and
great living conditions
• The doctor and the five medics are acussed of injected new born babies with the virus as an
experiment
• The parents of the children were tested for the virus and were proven not to have the virus
• This H.I.V epidemic at the El -Faith Children’s hospital is the largest documented outbreak of
H.I.V within a hospital history
• It was also the first time Aids became a public issue in Libya
4. • The doctor and nurses signed confessions
• They were found guilty and sentenced to death
• They then said that they where tortured and thats why they confessed
• They then had their case remanded by Libya’s highest court and where sentenced to
death again
• In july 2007 the six then had their sentence commuted to life prison by a libyan
government panel
• On july 24,2007 the five medics and the doctor were extradited to Bulgarian where
their sentence were commuted by the Bulgarian President and they were freed
5. • The team of nurses and the doctor claimed that they didn’t inject the children they
claimed that the children came in contact with the virus by the re use of needles
• They also claimed that the government were the people that were responsable for
the children being injected
• They also claimed that the infection at the children’s hospital was due to poor control
and lack of prevention
• Experts where called in to study the case and reported that indwelling catheters were
never imported by the hospital administration where not used by the medical staff in
any medical treatments Text
• They also stated that there is no evidence for the reuse of syringes or any disposable
sharp objects
• The expert also stated that it is possible to preserve the virus and the reactivate it if
it has been held in plasma it could be kept active for several days depending on how it
is stored
8. Pictures drawn by children who are caring for parents living with HIV/AIDS in South Africa. The top left
hand drawing shows a child taking their mother to the clinic and giving her a glass of water. The right-
hand picture shows a child giving their parent treatment. The bottom picture reads "In the morning I
have to help my mom to go to the hospital. When she get sick I must stay home with her so that I can
look after her. Some other time I must miss skool Because of my mother's sick Because I have to look
after childrens especial my younger brother".
9. • What are the effects and causes of H.I.V?
• What are some of the different ways you can get the virus?
• What are some of the causes that the medicine's may have on the body if
and are they different if you are a child ?
• What are some of the possible ways to cure the virus and how long do
experts think they will take?
• How does the virus break the body down (what it actually does to the
body)?
• What are some of the ways to prevent the virus?
