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The UK did not import whole blood [12] from abroad, but it did import large quantities of factor VIII given to those infected, as described in the documentary Factor 8: The Arkansas Prison Blood Scandal. The UK imported these products because it did not produce enough of its own, and efforts to achieve self-sufficiency were inadequately funded.
LONDON (Reuters) -An infected blood scandal in Britain was no accident but the fault of doctors and a succession of governments that led to 3,000 deaths and thousands more contracting hepatitis or ...
An estimated 3,000 people in the United Kingdom are believed to have died and many others were left with lifelong illnesses after receiving blood or blood products tainted with HIV or hepatitis in ...
AIDS was first recognized in the early 1980s among gay men but soon started appearing among hemophiliacs and those who had received blood transfusions. Though HIV was not identified as the cause of AIDS until 1983, warnings had been relayed to the U.K. government the year before that the causative agent could be transmitted by blood products.
The final report of the U.K.'s infected blood inquiry was published on Monday, nearly six years after it began looking into how tens of thousands of people contracted HIV or hepatitis from ...
The contaminated blood scandal has been called the worst treatment disaster in NHS history. Tens of thousands of people in the UK were infected with HIV and/or hepatitis through contaminated blood ...
The Infected Blood Compensation Scheme Regulations 2024 (SI 2024/872) is a statutory instrument (SI) that was laid before Parliament on 23 August 2024 to make provision for a compensation payment scheme for victims of the infected blood scandal as stipulated in the Victims and Prisoners Act 2024. [1] [2]
Victims of the infected blood scandal can receive financial support for life, it has been confirmed. Meanwhile, those who were subjected to unethical research will get up to £15,000 extra in a ...