Contaminated Blood Scandal

What I Learned From A Year Reporting On The Blood Contamination Scandal

One of the most horrifying aspects of the entire scandal is that it has remained an almost hidden issue and the general public don’t realise the full scale of injustice
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Contaminated Blood Has Killed Thousands – But Behind Each Scandalous Death Is A Unique Story Of Loss

This is a story of medical negligence, government cover-ups and big pharma greed on the scale of the thalidomide scandal, yet many have never heard of it. How? Why?
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Introducing HuffPost Reports: UK, Our In-Depth Look At The Underreported Issues Shaping Britain

With Brexit sucking up a lot of the attention in the room, we hope this series can help shine a light on stories we think should be getting more attention
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A Death Sentence: The Contaminated Blood Scandal

“Hundreds will die before this inquiry ends, hundreds of people will go to their graves with no sense of justice.”The contaminated blood scandal is the biggest disaster in NHS history, in which thousands of Brits were infected with HIV, hepatitis C and other deadly blood borne diseases. HuffPost spoke with the victims as the long awaited inquiry opened.
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The Contaminated Blood Scandal And The Forgotten Victims Of AIDS

We still think of AIDS as being a sexually transmitted disease, but approximately 1,000 haemophilia patients in the UK who were infected with HIV have died since the 1980s
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10 Important Things We Learned From Opening Of Landmark Infected Blood Inquiry

It is investigating how thousands became infected with HIV and hepatitis C from NHS blood.
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Stories Of Loss From Victims Fighting For Justice Over Contaminated Blood Scandal

Their lives were forever changed by killer viruses in contaminated blood.
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My Husband Died An AIDS Victim Because Of Contaminated Blood. For Him, And All The Others, The Inquiry Must Now Hear The Truth

Our lives could have been so much easier, our grief so much less harrowing, had those who were – and are – responsible not spent decade after decade trying to cover up what they did and didn’t do
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'I Lost Both Parents Within 8 Days Of Each Other To Contaminated Blood'

'Mum was trying to fight for answers for her kids, now I'm doing that for her'.
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‘I Lost My Husband And My Children Lost Their Dad – And It Was All Avoidable’

Widow wants infected blood inquiry to bring closure after years of struggle and grief.
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About Contaminated Blood Scandal
The contaminated blood scandal is a health disaster in which thousands of people in the UK were infected with HIV and hepatitis C (hep C) viruses through treatment with contaminated blood or blood products. The deadly treatments were used by the NHS in the 1970s and 1980s and as many as 3,000 people have since lost their lives. Many of those infected were haemophiliacs. The disaster is now the subject of a public inquiry in the UK.