August 2007

From the Newsletter

“People infected with HIV after receiving contaminated blood transfusions are still unaware of their status and are at risk of infecting others with the disease, the public inquiry into Britain’s haemophilia scandal was told in June.
The government has done little to follow up such victims – many of whom contracted the disease after just one blood transfusion in the mid-1980s and have lived with the condition for more than 20 years. In the cases that have come to light, patients have only been diagnosed following years of ill health. It is feared they may have unwittingly infected others.”

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