International attention on the Libyan HIV trial has been focused mainly on the Bulgarian defendants and not the infected Libyan children, the New York Times wrote.
"Attention focuses on the fate of the nurses, who have been sentenced to death, and not of the children, who are dying one by one," the article said.
It cited the father of one of the infected children as saying that there was a "double standard."
The five nurses and a Palestinian doctor were found guilty of deliberately injecting more than 400 children with the virus. Libyan court sentenced the medics to death in May, despite the testimonies of international experts who freed the defendants from blame.
The Bulgarian side is currently appealing against the sentences.