Some 41 toddlers and eight adults were infected with HIV in 2007, allegedly by health workers in the southern Osh region.
Fourteen health professionals in Kyrgyzstan are facing trial on charges related to the infections.
Investigators suspect the children were infected by tainted blood and the reuse of needles. Some 1,500 people have HIV in the ex-Soviet republic of 5 million people, according to official figures, 15 times more than in 2002.
Officials said the source of the infection was difficult to identify because the first child diagnosed with HIV had been hospitalized 12 times in various medical centers across Kyrgyzstan.
If the baby has mouth sores and the mother has broken skin on her nipples, HIV infection can be passed between them. One of the mothers, whose son was 7 months old at the time, said she suffered from cracked and bleeding breasts at that time.
Now the infected mothers have been ousted by the society, their in-laws and husbands. Only the infected children are getting free antiretroviral drugs not their mothers, who are too poor to buy the drugs themselves.
Since the women have been left by their husbands and not legally divorced, they are not even entitled for government welfare. Only their HIV-infected children are entitled to monthly payments of $23.
