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September 5, 2006

Iraq’s First HIV Lawsuit

September 5, 2006—About 35 Iraqi hemophiliacs, surviving family members and the Iraqi Red Crescent Society are suing two European companies for allegedly supplying HIV-tainted blood clotting agents in the ‘80s. The case, one of the first civil lawsuits in Iraq since the American invasion in 2003, follows a similar U.S. suit in 1996 that resulted in a $660 million settlement. 

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