Alex Terrell Blog - Friday 25 June 2010
What do contaminated blood campaigners deserve?
"If you do a straw poll of affected haemophiliacs, they'll tell you they would rather have the government admit liability than see a penny of compensation. Yet the two go hand in hand. In terms of media scrutiny, the political and legal rigmarole of years of lobbying and campaigning, have managed to keep the issue out of the headlines, and into a few middle-pages of the papers..."

South Wales Echo - Tuesday 22 June 2010
Family man Leigh fought illness with a smile on his face
...A haemophiliac, Leigh died from liver cancer, a complication from Hepatitis C which he was given through contaminated blood products then prescribed to improve his condition...

Western Mail - Alex Terrell reports - Monday 7 June 2010
Campaigner loses fight for life, but blood battle goes on
[TaintedBlood would like to point out that this article originally contained the following two errors: Haydn Lewis was not from Penarth, he was from Cardiff. Colin Smith did not die of natural causes.] Haydn Lewis, one of the leading campaigners fighting for justice for the victims of the contaminated blood scandal, has died....

BBC Newsnight - Friday 21 May 2010
Announcement of the death of haemophiliac campaigner Haydn Lewis
Gavin Esler: "Haemophiliac campaigner Haydn Lewis died this morning. Haydn who featured in a number of newsnight films fought for years on behalf of haemophiliacs infected with viruses such as HIV and hepatitis C from contaminated blood products. You can find more about Haydn and about the development in his campaign on Susan Watts' blog and that's on our website."

BBC Newsnight Blog - Friday 21 May 2010
Death of haemophiliac campaigner Haydn Lewis
Susan Watts: "...Haydn wanted to understand what went wrong, and he unearthed more about this than pretty much anyone, and did so not just for himself but for scores of other families he knew who were, and are, in a similar situation. He was a walking encyclopaedic guide to the thousands of government documents in which officials, scientists, doctors and politicians revealed how thousands of haemophiliacs became infected just like Haydn."

Demotix.com - The Street Wire - Tuesday 4 May 2010
Families of CJD victims take protest to the Prime minister
A group of campaigners who have been fighting for the government to release information on the extent of the spread of vCJD gathered today at No'10 to protest as vCJD continues to claim victims over 10 years after meat products have been branded safe... The campaigners also highlighted the danger of CJD infection by blood transfusion...

Herbert Smith LLP e-bulletin - Friday 30 April 2010
Quashing a decision on the basis of material error of fact
In R (March) v Secretary of State for Health [2010] EWHC 765 (Admin), Mr Justice Holman in the High Court quashed on the grounds of material error of fact a decision by the Secretary of State concerning the level of ex gratia payments...The case is significant because it further demonstrates that material error of fact is now a distinct ground of challenge in judicial review proceedings & shows how this will be applied by the courts in appropriate circumstances to quash public authorities' decisions

Bolton News - Tuesday 27 April 2010
‘Bad blood’ ruling welcomed by victim
David Fielding, aged 54, of Farnworth, who needed a liver transplant after contracting hepatitis B and C, has welcomed the ruling. Mr Fielding said: “This now puts the ball firmly in the Government’s court. It gives us another chance of closure and a proper and fair compensation package.”

The Express - Friday 23 April 2010
HIV: Families of NHS patients take fight to No 10
Families of NHS patients given blood contaminated with HIV and hepatitis marched to Downing Street yesterday to hand over a petition demanding better compensation... ...Widow Gillian Purnell said: “We want justice. The Government have treated us like second-class ­citizens.”

Worcester Standard - Friday 23 April 2010
Hope for justice rests on election
Collette Wintle: "It is morally repugnant this Government has chosen repeatedly to deny justice to the victims and their families nor offer an apology and has refused to offer proper compensation, despite the findings and recommendations of Lord Archer of Sandwell’s inquiry,"...

SouthWest Business News - Thursday 22 April 2010
Blood campaigners take fight to No 10
Gill Purnell and her son Edward are to lay a wreath of white lilies outside Number 10 along with two other widows and their respective families to highlight their campaign for justice... Mrs Purnell said: "The fact that I have lost my husband does not mean that I will give up. He suffered so much latterly that I have to fight on for his justice on his behalf."

Norwich Evening News - Wednesday 21 April 2010
Norwich man welcomes hepatitis decision
Now, in what has been described as an historic day by health campaigners, the judicial review has been successful and the government's decision not to accept the Archer Report's recommendations has been quashed by the High Court. Mr Colyer: “This is a major step for us. It means the government cannot appeal against legitimate recommendations made by a thorough report..."

Kester Cunningham John News Service - Wednesday 21 April 2010
Man infected by 'bad blood' vows to continue compensation battle
"...despite this, a 25-year battle, and the criticism of a government inquiry, the battle continues. One has to ask why? Incompetence? Inertia? Or,cynically, the hope that there will be fewer and fewer left to compensate? Good Luck to Mr Colyer. We support him and wish him and his fellow sufferers success, and soon."

Legal Medical (medico-legal news) - Wednesday 21 April 2010
Man wins blood payout challenge
A man from west London has won a legal challenge over compensation payments after he contracted HIV and hepatitis C through contaminated blood products while receiving NHS treatment...

Solicitors Journal - Tuesday 20 April 2010
New government to decide on haemophiliac compensation
Michael Vian Clark, a non-pracitising barrister at Michelmores in Exeter, acted for March: “There is an independent tribunal in Ireland which assesses compensation on the basis of need in the same way as other civil damages claims,”... ...“The government here has produced no evidence to back up its view.”

Poz.com (USA, New York) - Monday 19 April 2010
U.K. Government Is Reviewing Blood Contamination Compensation
An independent inquiry had recommended that these Britons receive compensation on the same level as the victims of a recent blood contamination scandal in Ireland. In that case, people received an average of £750,000 ($1.1 million) if they contracted hepatitis C and up to £101,000 ($154,939) if they contracted HIV...

The Times - Saturday 17 April 2010
Composer wins a rethink over cash for blood victims
A High Court judge ruled yesterday that the Government’s approach “has been, and remains, infected by error”...

The Express - Saturday 17 April 2010
Victory in Blood Transfusion Scandal
Yesterday at the High Court a judge said he was satisfied that the Government’s approach to payments had been flawed... The ruling takes Mr March and thousands more sufferers closer to potentially billions of pounds in payments.

The Scotsman - Saturday 17 April 2010
Composer who caught HIV from NHS blood wins court battle
Haemophiliac Andrew March, 36, had criticised the government's refusal to match higher payouts in the Republic of Ireland... Mr Justice Holman said the way the government had reached its decision was flawed, though he said it was not up to him to rule on the amount paid...

Independent - Saturday 17 April 2010
Man gets review of blood payout
Andrew March, 36, a haemophiliac who was infected with HIV and hepatitis C when he was nine, won a legal challenge against the Government's decision in May 2009 not to pay compensation to affected individuals at levels recommended by an official inquiry into the disaster...

Guardian - Saturday 17 April 2010
Court ruling may help contaminated blood victims win higher payouts
A classical music composer who was infected by HIV when he was nine, who later developed hepatitis, won a judicial review that challenged the basis of health ministers' decision last year not to increase the payments... (this article appeared on p6 of the main section of the Guardian on 17.04.2010)

Liverpool Echo - Saturday 17 April 2010
St Helens widow “overjoyed” at contaminated blood compensation ruling
Sandra Molyneux, from St Helens, lost her husband, Alan, in 1985, after he contracted the virus from a blood transfusion at the Royal Liverpool Hospital. Mrs Molyneux: “I am overjoyed at this decision. This is a test case and means the whole fight can move forward."

Peterborough Evening Telegraph - Saturday 17 April 2010
Composer wins blood payout challenge
The judge said he wished to make absolutely clear that the allocation of resources was entirely a matter for the Government. But it had been faced with a specific reasoned recommendation, which it had rejected, of comparability or equivalence with Ireland, where "very much higher" payments were made to sufferers and their dependants.

TopNews USA - Saturday 17 April 2010
Composer Wins Legal Dispute Over Impending Reimbursement Worth Thousands of Pounds
Andrew March, a 36 year old, had sought a legal evaluation cancelling a governmental pronouncement, which stated not to honor reimbursement to victims of an impure blood scandal on the similar level as those in the Republic of Ireland... ...A High Court judge ruled yesterday that the Government’s declaration was full of errors.

Michelmores Medial Negligence News - Saturday 17 April 2010
Michelmores' win Andrew March tainted blood High Court judicial review
Mr Justice Holman ruled that the way the UK government had reached its decision was flawed but said it was not his role to rule on the amount paid...

Coventry Evening Telegraph - Saturday 17 April 2010
Victory for man in HIV blood scandal
Mr March and his fellow campaigners hope their legal victory will put compensation for victims at the top of the agenda for the next government after the elections. The Liberal Democrat manifesto slammed the failure to reach an agreement with the victims and pledged to set a fair level of financial assistance.

Guardian - Friday 16 April 2010
Court ruling may help contaminated blood victims win higher payouts
Government faces pressure to give more compensation, but judge warns campaigners against 'false optimism'

Independent - Friday 16 April 2010
Composer wins contaminated blood payout challenge
Supporters of legally aided Mr March... ...who attended London's High Court for the ruling - applauded as the judge said he was satisfied that the Government's approach "has been, and remains, infected by an error".

Telegraph - Friday 16 April 2010
Composer wins compensation review over contaminated blood
Outside court, Mr March said: "The judge's decision proves the flawed basis on which the Government made its decision not to implement the recommended compensation scheme..."

BBC News - Friday 16 April 2010
Campaigner wins tainted blood case
A composer who contracted HIV and hepatitis C through an NHS blood transfusion has won a High Court challenge over compensation levels...

Press Association - Friday 16 April 2010
Composer wins blood payout challenge
The Judge said: ...they had not merely repeated that they could not afford it but given a reason which, in his view, contained an error and did not withstand scrutiny - that they continued to regard the Irish system as based on fault rather than on compensation...

Channel 4 News - Friday 16 April 2010
Man wins infected blood payout case
Haemophiliac Andrew March, 36, had sought a judicial review quashing the Health Secretary's May 2009 decision not to implement fully the recommendations of the Archer Report on supplies which were not adequately cleansed before use.

Yahoo News (Press Association) - Friday 16 April 2010
Man wins infected blood payout case
Michael Fordham QC, told Mr Justice Holman a judicial review was warranted as the decision was made for manifestly bad reasons. "What we say is that the Secretary of State should reconsider this important aspect on a correct basis."

Belfast Telegraph - Friday 16 April 2010
Man wins infected blood payout case
...the judge said he was satisfied that the Government's approach "has been, and remains, infected by an error".

Daily Mirror - Friday 16 April 2010
Man wins infected blood payout case
Michael Fordham QC: "What we say is that the Secretary of State should reconsider this important aspect on a correct basis."

Virgin Media News - Friday 16 April 2010
Man wins infected blood payout case
"What we say is that the Secretary of State should reconsider this important aspect on a correct basis."

Evening Standard (London) - Friday 16 April 2010
Man wins infected blood payout case
An award-winning composer who contracted HIV and Hepatitis C through NHS treatment with contaminated blood products has won his legal challenge over compensation payments...

International News - Friday 16 April 2010
Court backs tainted blood victim
The government came under pressure yesterday to make higher compensation payments to thousands of people with haemophilia who contracted hepatitis C after being given contaminated blood products in the 1970s and 1980s.

The Express - Friday 16 April 2010
Man wins infected blood payout case
Haemophiliac Andrew March, 36, had sought a judicial review quashing the Health Secretary's May 2009 decision not to implement fully the recommendations of the Archer Report...

IC Newcastle - Friday 16 April 2010
Man wins infected blood payout case
...a judicial review was warranted as the decision was made for manifestly bad reasons...

BBC Newsnight Blog - Friday 16 April 2010
Haemophiliac wins compensation legal challenge
An award-winning composer who contracted HIV and Hepatitis C through NHS treatment with contaminated blood products today won his legal challenge over compensation payments.

U.TV News (Northern Ireland) - Friday 16 April 2010
Court ruling may help contaminated blood victims win higher payouts
TaintedBlood: "The government will now have to reconsider their original decision and remake it based on a lawful and factual basis. This time we would ask that they refrain from taking a cavalier attitude to such a crucial question..."

Times Online - Friday 16 April 2010
Composer who contracted HIV wins legal challenge
...Ministers refused, promising those with HIV only £12,800 per year, while those with hepatitis C are paid separately... ...But a High Court judge ruled today that the Government’s approach “has been, and remains, infected by error”, and the Department of Health may have to reconsider the compensation paid to victims of the scandal...

Big on Glasgow - Friday 16 April 2010
Tainted blood damages ruling due
...A ruling is due over Andrew March being given contaminated blood...

St Albans & Harpenden Review - Friday 16 April 2010
Man wins infected blood payout case
An award-winning composer who contracted HIV and Hepatitis C through NHS treatment with contaminated blood products has won his legal challenge over compensation payments...

Birmingham Mail - Friday 16 April 2010
Man wins infected blood payout case
Supporters of Mr March - who attended London's High Court for the ruling - applauded as the judge said he was satisfied that the Government's approach "has been, and remains, infected by an error".

Wales Online - Friday 16 April 2010
Man wins infected blood payout case
Haemophiliac Andrew March, 36, had sought a judicial review quashing the Health Secretary's May 2009 decision not to implement fully the recommendations of the Archer Report...

HSJ - Health Service Journal - Friday 16 April 2010
NHS tainted blood decision due
...A celebrated composer who contracted HIV and hepatitis C through infected NHS blood transfusions will learn the outcome of his legal challenge over compensation payments on Friday...

Herald de Paris - Friday 16 April 2010
Campaigner wins tainted blood case
A composer who contracted HIV and hepatitis C through an NHS blood transfusion has won a High Court challenge over compensation levels...

Hepatitic C Trust News - Friday 16 April 2010
Campaigner wins tainted blood case
Lord Morris of Manchester, the Labour peer who is president of the Haemophilia Society, said: "This is an historic decision, most warmly welcomed by the haemophilia community.

Daily Star - Friday 16 April 2010
Man wins infected blood payout case
The Government has refused to assess compensation on the same basis as in the Republic of Ireland...

Pushpi.com - Mumbai, India - Friday 16 April 2010
Campaigner wins tainted blood case
Andrew March, 36, had criticised the government’s refusal to match higher payouts in the Republic of Ireland...

Mirror - Saturday 10 April 2010
Successive governments have ignored their pleas...
Money can do only so much...It won't bring back those we have lost but it will ensure peace of mind for the living. It will allow those who are dying to know that after they have gone, their loved ones will be financially secure. (scroll down under the advert for 3 more contributions)

Wales Online - Thursday 8 April 2010
Review into contaminated blood payments brought forward
Jenny Willott, MP: `I am delighted the Government has finally decided to bring forward the date of this review. Everyone involved in campaigning for blood-scandal victims agrees that 2014 is far too late for a review and would mean many more victims dying before changes are made.`

The Glaswegian - Thursday 8 April 2010
Hepatitis call for witnesses
An inquiry into the infection of Scots with Hepatitis C and HIV through blood products has called for Glasgow witnesses to step forward... Witnesses will be sent a list of issues to be covered in the statement beforehand....

This Is Lancashire - Wednesday 7 April 2010
`Bad blood` pay review this year
Dave Fielding: `I`m glad the Government is going to bring forward the review but we still have to wait to see what form this will take & what it will mean. There is a lot of uncertainty and I worry it will still come too late as we lose one or two people a month.`

Gov Monitor USA - Tuesday 6 April 2010
Skipton Fund Scheme Under Review To Help Hepatitis C Patients Further
The scheme known as the Skipton Fund, which makes payments to those infected with hepatitis C through contaminated NHS supplied blood, blood products and tissues is to be reviewed early, the Government announced today....

Federation of Disabled People - Tuesday 6 April 2010
Blood campaigners attack government`s `cheap initiative`
Although Mike Dorricott, a TaintedBlood spokesman, said later that the Skipton fund announcement was `a step in the right direction`, he said it was `almost a kick in the teeth as far as Lord Archer and Lord Morris are concerned`...

AHCS - Australian Hepatitis C Support - Wednesday 31 March 2010
Judicial review on tainted blood
...A judicial review is to be heard by the High Court over calls for higher compensation to the victims of contaminated blood... (BBC source material)

Birmingham Wired (sourced from BC) - Friday 26 March 2010
Judicial review on tainted blood
A judicial review is to be heard by the High Court over calls for higher compensation to the victims of contaminated blood. Victims want payments mirroring larger sums the Irish Republic has seen...

The Yorkshire Post - Friday 26 March 2010
Leading composer given tainted blood launches payout challenge
It was Mr March`s case that the reasons for the decision did not provide an adequate basis for it, but embodied a `fundamental mischaracterisation` of the Irish scheme. Philippa Whipple QC said there was no misunderstanding let alone error of fact by the UK Government.

Associated Press - Thursday 25 March 2010
Top composer to fight tainted blood payout decision
Haemophiliac Andrew March, 36, wants a judicial review of the Health Secretary`s May 2009 decision not fully to implement the recommendations of the Archer Report on supplies which were not adequately cleansed before use...

BBC News - Thursday 25 March 2010
Judicial review on tainted blood
A judicial review is to be heard by the High Court over calls for higher compensation to the victims of contaminated blood...

Yell.com - Thursday 25 March 2010
Transfusion scandal goes to court
A case at London's High Court could have massive importance for thousands of people who contracted HIV and hepatitis through NHS blood transfusions in the 1980s...

The Journal (Newcastle Journal) - Wednesday 24 March 2010
Widow angered at leaked papers on blood scandal costs
Papers leaked to a national newspaper show health officials were pre-occupied with controlling costs as the scandal of HIV - and hepatitis C - infected blood transfusions threatened the lives of haemophiliacs in the 1980s...

Guardian - Tuesday 23 March 2010
Officials worried about saving money amid infected blood scandal
Government papers leaked to the Guardian show that health officials were preoccupied with controlling costs as the scandal of HIV- and hepatitis C-infected blood transfusions threatened the lives of vulnerable haemophiliacs in the 1980s... (article appeared in the main Guardian on p.10)

Michelmores Medial Negligence News - Monday 22 March 2010
Background briefing on contaminated blood judicial review
...Quite simply, the government is wrong about Ireland: 1. Compensation in Ireland is not fault based. In both countries payments are ex gratia and not designed to acknowledge fault on the part of the state... 2. The Irish scheme was not set up in response to findings of fault...

Todmorden News - Friday 19 March 2010
Andrew`s moving elegy will nestle among towering music
...Created by the 36-year-old composer Andrew March his five-minute premiere is a memorial to the innocent victims who died, and others who are still dying, after they were given contaminated blood transfusions in the 1970s and 1980s... `...Many, like Andrew, were haemophiliacs.`

Plymouth Herald - Monday 15 March 2010
Pensioner`s disgust at diseased blood ruling
Ron Venton: `I think it`s absolutely disgusting. This was brought about by the government importing infected blood and they are trying to wash their hands of it.` ... `For the Bill to be blocked like that is an absolute disgrace.`

The Bolton News - Monday 15 March 2010
Fight for `bad blood` victims blocked again
A campaign to compensate haemophiliacs given `bad blood` has been blocked by MPs. Among those campaigning for it to become law was David Fielding, from Farnworth... He needed a liver transplant after contracting hepatitis B & C and his brother Brian died in 1990 at the age of 46, after being infected with HIV.

Press Association - Friday 12 March 2010
Blood contamination Bill rejected
The Contaminated Blood (Support for Infected and Bereaved Persons) Bill passed swiftly through its Lords stages....but the measure has repeatedly been blocked by Government whips from getting a second reading in the Commons.

The Guardian - Friday 5 March 2010
CJD victims' families lose high court battle to change compensation scheme
Families of people who developed the incurable variant CJD today lost their high court battle to change what they saw as a flawed compensation scheme. Mr Justice Silber said: "I am unable to conclude that the decision to reject the radical proposals was irrational or unlawful."

Pontefract & Castleford Express - Thursday 4 March 2010
MP 'ignored' me
A mum-of-three infected with hepatitis C in a contaminated blood scandal says her fight for justice has been "ignored" by MP Yvette Cooper. ... "After I waited 29 weeks for a reply she did apologise but I don't think that's good enough..."

This Is Cheshire - Wednesday 3 March 2010
Compensation blow for haemophiliac
A haemophiliac has slammed the Government after the contaminated blood bill he campaigned for was deferred for a second time... Michael Kenwright: "How many times will this be thrown out before it gets debated? It could take forever."

BBC Newsnight Blog - Friday 26 February 2010
Time running out for haemophiliac's bill (by Susan Watts)
This week saw the first anniversary of the Archer report, yet most of these recommendations have been left unanswered. And there has not been a debate in the House of Commons in government time - as the Archer team was led to expect... (Please note there is a section for reader's comments)

The Sunday Times - Sunday 21 February 2010
HIV patients on antiretoviral drugs age before their time
Mark Ward caught HIV from a blood transfusion in his teens. Now, at 40, he has the body of a pensioner. Are the drugs that saved his life to blame?... Mark Ward: "Our parents were told to take us home and spoil us a bit. Take us to Disneyland quickly if they wanted to, because we only had a couple of years to live."

St Albans & Harpenden Review - Monday 15 February 2010
St Albans infected victim lobbying Parliament
A St Albans woman who fears she has been infected through a transfusion with a fatal brain disease has told the Review of her anger that a law to prevent similar tragedies is stuck in Parliament...

Michelmores Medial Negligence News - Monday 15 February 2010
Transfusion victim fights for pay-out
A man who caught Hepatitis C from a blood transfusion is fighting the Government for more compensation... (Article from the Leicester Mercury)

Kidderminster Shuttle - Sunday 14 February 2010
Blood product law needs MPs' support
A Kidderminster woman who contracted hepatitis C after being given contaminated blood products is calling on the Government to support a new law being proposed in Parliament...

Bristol Evening Post - Letters - Saturday 13 February 2010
Letters: Bristol MP defends role in passing blood bill
Ms Kerry McCarthy MP: "I am writing in response to your article regarding the Contaminated Blood Bill, and my role in the House of Commons as Duty Whip last Friday. Your headline about 'playing political games' is highly misleading..." (Please note there is a blog at the end of the article for reader comments.)

Warrington Guardian - Thursday 11 February 2010
Medical fury over delaying tactics
A haemophiliac says he is frustrated after the contaminated blood bill he campaigned relentlessly for was deferred in the House of Commons... Mr Kenwright: "I think what the Government has done is perverse..." ...But the Government said it was not appropriate for the bill to be passed without debate as time had run out before it came up on the order paper & the decision was called by junior whip MP Kerry McCarthy...

Bristol Evening Post - Wednesday 10 February 2010
Bristol MP accused of playing political games at expense of sick and dying
A Bristol MP has been accused of playing political games that use the sick and dying as pawns. Junior whip Kerry McCarthy triggered a delay in the passage of a Bill through Parliament that called for a better deal for patients given contaminated blood...

Leicester Mercury - Tuesday 9 February 2010
Leicestershire blood transfusion victim fights for pay-out
A man who caught hepatitis C from a blood transfusion is fighting the Government for more compensation. David Bailey: "Our lives have been totally ruined in that most of us have had to finish work and most are very ill."

Michelmores Medial Negligence News - Monday 8 February 2010
'Swift action' needed for blood scandal victims
Sue, 55, has been campaigning for 27 years to get apologies and compensation for the victims of the blood donation scandal. She said her family were "ripped apart" by Bob's death 18 years ago...

Liberal Democrats Bristol East - News - Monday 8 February 2010
Kerry McCarthy, Labour's Bristol East MP plays with the sick and dying
Mike Popham, Lib Dem prospective MP for Bristol East said "Instead of excusing herself by saying that the process she triggered was a procedural and technical one, Kerry McCarthy should have made a clear and unambiguous apology..."

Guardian (Letters) - Friday 5 February 2010
Contaminated blood
Chris James: "We sympathise with the correspondent's position and in fact we have battled over many years to reduce the stigma of HIV & hepatitis C. But in the case of haemophilia patients, many received multiple infections including hepatitis C & HIV..."

Norfolk Eastern Daily Press - Friday 5 February 2010
Norwich Hepatitis C sufferer demands justice
On Wednesday, the Haemophilia Society descended on parliament to lobby MPs to accept a bill, which will offer a fair deal for those contaminated in the blood disaster... Mr Collyer: "This bill is very important to all those people who were infected and have spent more than 20 years fighting..."

The Bolton News - Friday 5 February 2010
Blood victim David aims for justice
Mr Fielding, of Farnworth, was among more than 100 people, including Brian Iddon MP, lobbying MPs at the House of Parliament on Wednesday...

Ellee Seymour - ProActive PR - Thursday 4 February 2010
Eric Pickles and the Contaminated Blood Bill
Suddenly, Eric Pickles walked by, and people seized their moment to grab his attention. Then a middle-aged man I was standing next to limped over to him with the aid of two walking sticks, thrust a folded piece of paper into his hand and pleaded: "Will you please read this, it's my story and I would like you to read it." ...The man's name is Steve Nicholls and he is a haemophiliac...

Guardian (Letters) - Tuesday 2 February 2010
Contaminated blood bill will bring justice
Haydn Lewis: "There is only one person who has the power to make this bill law - Gordon Brown. But to date he has never spoken publicly about this issue..."

Guardian (Letters) - Tuesday 2 February 2010
Contaminated blood bill will bring justice
Sue Threakall: "It is only now, with the advent of this bill, that we have a chance to see the government do the right thing..." "...It will be a travesty if this bill fails to receive its second reading in the House of Commons."

Guardian (Letters) - Saturday 30 January 2010
Contaminated blood bill must become law
Ruth Rendell: "As one who has written a book about haemophiliacs and what they endure, I have been made indignant and very angry by their further sufferings due to contaminated blood used in their NHS treatment." "...It would be unforgivable if it fails to receive a second reading in the Commons. This must not happen. This bill must become law..."

The Bolton News - Friday 29 January 2010
"Bad blood" victim in Commons fight
Dave Fielding: "I'll fight until my last day for justice for those who have died, the ongoing victims and future haemophiliacs." Dr Iddon said: "I'm part of the fight and always have been and this will continue."

St Albans & Harpenden Review - Thursday 28 January 2010
Praise for St Albans MP from brain disease victim
A 38-year-old mother-of-two from St Albans, who does not want to be named said: "I hope a lot of MPs come to the meeting on Wednesday, we can persuade them to support the bill, and it goes through without any changes."

BBC News - Wednesday 27 January 2010
vCJD compensation scheme judgement reserved
Annie McVey: "The hearing has been very difficult for all of us who have brought this challenge." "...The judge is seeking further information and said he would reserve judgement for at least three weeks."

BBC News - Thursday 21 January 2010
High Court to review vCJD victims compensation scheme
Mrs McVey and the other families have now been granted a High Court judicial review. At the hearing next week they will claim the delay of successive health secretaries to make a decision on the changes was "unreasonable"...

Telegraph - Wednesday 13 January 2010
Sir Donald Acheson - Obituary
...Although he faced some criticism from doctors who felt he had acted too slowly in protecting haemophiliacs from contaminated blood products, he introduced tests to screen the blood of donors within six months.

Irwin Mitchell Media Centre - Thursday 31 December 2009
Contaminated Blood Victim Gets Go-Ahead For Court Challenge In Battle For Justice
A woman infected by Hepatitis C after a contaminated blood transfusion more than 20 years ago has been given the go-ahead by a High Court judge to launch a landmark legal challenge in the latest stage of her long-running battle for justice... ...Her solicitors Irwin Mitchell have now been given High Court permission for a Judicial Review against the exclusion of Ms Moore from an official compensation scheme...

Plymouth Herald - Friday 18 December 2009
Victim of blood scandal hopes for justice from Bill
Mr Venton, who said he is the country's oldest haemophiliac, said: "I hope the Bill brings about change. We're in a situation where most of us are struggling financially and health wise...

Michelmores Medial Negligence News - Friday 18 December 2009
Further concerns over vCJD
Laurence Vick: `It will be important to be sure that lessons have been learned from those previous contaminated blood scandals, particularly with regard to transparency of letting patients know what has happened, irrespective of any issues of fault.`

Michelmores Medial Negligence News - Wednesday 16 December 2009
Plea to compensate haemophilia victims
An attempt to compensate and support victims of the `worst-ever treatment disaster in the history of the NHS` was launched in the Lords yesterday...

Michelmores Medial Negligence News - Wednesday 16 December 2009
Lord Morris corrects the government`s assertion over the basis for the Irish hepatitis compensation scheme
Michelmores` clinical negligence team applaud Lord Morris` helpful clarification in Parliament of the circumstances of the Irish Hepatitis C & HIV Compensation Tribunal. The issue of the correct response to Lord Archer`s Inquiry shows no signs of abating.

This Is Cheshire - Tuesday 17 November 2009
Haemophiliac meets with Lords
Mr Kenwright went to London last week with other members of the Manor House Group, an action group, to meet Lord Peter Archer, Dr Norman Jones of St Thomas' Hospital in London & Judith Willetts, chief executive of the British Society for Immunology...

Guardian - Sunday 11 October 2009
Haemophilia patients battle to sue firm that sold tainted drug in Asia
People with haemophilia in Taiwan are appealing a decision by the US courts that says they cannot sue a multinational drugs firm in the US over allegations that they contracted HIV from contaminated blood products that the company knowingly dumped in Asia

Salisbury Journal - Wednesday 2 September 2009
Campaign for vCJD blood screening
...A young Fordingbridge woman is campaigning to have all donated blood screened for the human form of mad cow disease after her grandmother, a keen blood donor, died from the disease...

BBC News Channel - Wednesday 19 August 2009
Coroners 'reject plea over vCJD'
Coroners are refusing to test for an infection which causes vCJD... Christine Lord: "I don't know whether its to do with extra money or its rhetoric and bureaucracy getting in the way once again of protecting human health."

Press Association - Wednesday 19 August 2009
Coroners 'should test for vCJD'
Professor John Collinge, a leading expert on variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD) warned that many people could be "silently infected" with the potentially fatal condition...

Portsmouth News - Wednesday 19 August 2009
Coroners urged to help track mad cow disease
Christine Lord, from Southsea, said: "I'm looking for coroners to do their duty to face a ticking health time bomb."

The Times - Wednesday 19 August 2009
Coroners block tests to monitor vCJD spread
Professor Collinge, a member of SEAC, said that systematic testing was needed to establish how many more people were likely to get the disease and whether the current measures to protect the spread of infection were appropriate....

Michelmores Medical Negligence News - Wednesday 19 August 2009
Coroners reject plea over vCJD
Scientists said the checks during post-mortem examinations could help find out how many people in the population have the infection without knowing it... (Source Portsmouth News)

Medical News Today - Wednesday 19 August 2009
Coroners Reluctant To Test For vCJD
Christine Lord, a journalist and campaigner whose son Andy Black died nearly two years ago of vCJD at the age of 24, told the BBC that coroners could save lives by agreeing to do the tests...

Canadian Press - Wednesday 19 August 2009
Britain to start mad cow study to find out how many people are silently carrying the disease
...Until now, British coroners say the law only allows them to test for a person's cause of death, not for coincidental infections...

The Scotsman - Monday 20 July 2009
Police probe claims that doctor 'failed to tell patients they had HIV'
POLICE are investigating claims that a leading consultant withheld the HIV status of haemophiliacs - and endangered the lives of their family members by keeping their medical status secret for years...

Medical News Today - Thursday 2 July 2009
Government "No Leg To Stand On" Over Refusal to Compensate Tainted Blood Victims
Raymond Bradley of Malcolmson Law solicitors, Dublin: "At no juncture has the Irish Government, in relation to any claim by a person with Haemophilia before the Irish courts, accepted liability, i.e. filed or delivered a Defence admitting responsibility."

The Scotsman - Thursday 25 June 2009
Blood contamination inquiry chairman calls for evidence
Since he was appointed in January, Lord Penrose has been examining key documents going back over 30 years. He is now inviting all people and organisations who hold documents relevant to the inquiry's remit to come forward.

The Bolton News - Friday 19 June 2009
Victims take 'bad blood' fight to Health Secretary
The 53-year-old will join other campaigners from across the country to hand Mr Burnham a number of documents including the report from the Archer Inquiry, an independent investigation into the scandal.

BBC News website - Friday 19 June 2009
Protest anger at blood 'scandal'
Dozens of protestors, some of whom are seriously ill with Aids and Hepatitis C, arrived at Mr Burnham's office in Leigh from around the country.

Economic & Social Research Council News - Sunday 14 June 2009
Research supports World Blood Donor Day message on blood safety
Carol Grayson: "The problem with a "blood for money" system is that it attracts those individuals that are less concerned about their own health or suitability as donors because their focus is on the financial reward."

Lancashire Telegraph - Thursday 28 May 2009
Blackburn haemophiliac slams "worst medical tragedy"
The decision has been criticised by a Blackburn haemophiliac: "What they have offered is a pittance. They have completely ignored those who contracted Hepatitis C."

This is Cheshire - Thursday 28 May 2009
Grappenhall man's fury over decision not to compensate hepatitis C victims
Mike Kenwright: "The response has completely failed to look at the hardships faced by the victims of infection from hepatitis C and those exposed to CJD..."

South Wales Argus - Wednesday 27 May 2009
No payout for Newport Aids boy's tragic death
Mrs Smith said: "We were absolutely devastated, it was utter disbelief. This is the final insult."

Coventry Telegraph - Monday 25 May 2009
'Tainted blood' victim pledges to fight on for friends
Andrew March: "This year, I have lost two friends - one a haemophiliac and the other who received infected blood as a transfusion,"�... "I have to carry on campaigning for friends who no longer can." (Note: the article consists of 2 pages with a continuation page link available on the first page...)

BMJ - Friday 22 May 2009
UK government doubles payments to haemophilia patients infected with HIV from contaminated blood but makes no increase for hepatitis C
The government's response to the report of the independent Archer inquiry into the blood scandal, which called for substantial increases in compensation, was "a faltering step that only compounds the anguish of the afflicted and bereaved,"...

The Sun - Thursday 21 May 2009
Victims of HIV blood snubbed
Ministers yesterday snubbed a compensation bid by Brits who caught HIV and Hepatitis C from infected NHS blood. An inquiry had called for lump sums of up to £790,000 - matching payouts in the Irish Republic.

The Scotsman - Thursday 21 May 2009
Ministers 'lacking in compassion' over victims of hepatitis C
The UK government has "compounded the anguish" of thousands of haemophiliacs infected with HIV and hepatitis C from contaminated blood transfusions by failing to offer compensation, the chairman of an independent inquiry said yesterday...

The Telegraph - Thursday 21 May 2009
Hepatitis C patients given contaminated blood refused compensation
Chris James, chief executive of the Haemophilia Society, said the Government had tried to "water down" and "ignore" Lord Archer's recommendations and presented "a collection of half-measures".

The Mirror - Thursday 21 May 2009
'Bad blood' payments are blasted
...But Health Minister Dawn Primarolo has set annual payments of £12,800 a person. Hepatitis C victim. Bruce Norval of Fortrose, near Inverness, said: "This is an obscenity."

The Mirror - Thursday 21 May 2009
Hep C blood victims get compo snub
Thousands of haemophiliacs infected with hepatitis C by the NHS were yesterday refused extra compensation...

The Journal - Thursday 21 May 2009
Fight for justice for infected blood victims will go to Europe
A North East campaigner last night vowed to use the Human Rights Act to fight the Government's decision not to award compensation to victims of an infected blood scandal.

This is Lancashire - Thursday 21 May 2009
Victims "insulted" over response to bad blood inquiry
David Fielding: "I am just devastated, I feel extremely let down and angry. The Government has a total lack of decency and compassion towards a group who were infected with fatal diseases that will kill us."

The Sun - Thursday 21 May 2009
Stars join forces to K.O. killer
THE dangers of Hepatitis C are being highlighted by stars Jack Davenport and his wife Michelle Gomez after a close pal caught the disease.

Herald De Paris - Thursday 21 May 2009
Tainted blood victims left angry
Thousands of people in the UK, mainly people with haemophilia, were infected with HIV and hepatitis C during the 1970s and 1980s. Campaigners have said the level of compensation was too low and the means-testing system demeaning....

The Independent - Thursday 21 May 2009
Hepatitis victims lose battle for extra cash
Haemophiliacs who contracted HIV from infected blood will see payments they receive from the Government double but those infected with hepatitis C will get no extra cash, ministers have announced...

BBC News - Wednesday 20 May 2009
Contaminated blood pay-outs upped
"...But ministers stopped short of the full reform of the system which campaigners and an independent inquiry called for." Tainted Blood campaign group described the changes as "insulting and degrading".

Times - Wednesday 20 May 2009
Ministers condemned for 'paltry' help for blood scandal haemophiliacs
Lord Archer of Sandwell: "The Government response is a faltering step that only compounds the anguish of the afflicted and bereaved. It is difficult to avoid the conclusion that humanitarian impulses have come a bad second to Treasury constraints."

The Guardian - Wednesday 20 May 2009
Anger after government rejects increase in infected blood payouts
The government was accused today of putting budget constraints ahead of victims of the worst treatment scandal in NHS history after deciding not to increase compensation for people infected with hepatitis C during routine blood transfusions...

Press Association - Wednesday 20 May 2009
Cash boost for some haemophiliacs
"...For years the NHS used imported blood from the US to treat haemophiliacs, often collected from paid "skid row" donors such as prison inmates who were more likely to have HIV and hepatitis."

Politic.co.uk - Wednesday 20 May 2009
Government's blood scandal response is 'shameful' - Willott
Jenny Willott, MP: "The Government's response is shameful and underlines their appalling and cynical behaviour over this issue."

The Telegraph - Saturday 16 May 2009
802 haemophilia patients at risk from vCJD
Lord Darzi: "To date, 802 haemophilia patients are registered on the UK Haemophilia Centre Doctors' Organisation database as receiving clotting factors made from UK plasma pools containing a donation from a donor who went on to develop vCJD."

This is Cheshire - Wednesday 6 May 2009
Blood victim to continue fight
Grappenhall resident Mike Kenwright was one of thousands of haemophiliacs infected with Hepatitis C from bad blood transfusions in the 1970s and 1980s...

Manchester Evening News - Friday 24 April 2009
Call over blood scandal
...Lord Rooker said he was suspicious about the reluctance of the Department of Health to reveal details of what happened...

Channel 4 News - Friday 24 April 2009
Call on blood contamination report
Lord Morris: "We need action now to implement the Archer inquiry's call for improved access for infected patients to NHS facilities; and to secure the financial future of the Haemophilia Society..."

Medical News Today - Friday 24 April 2009
Haemophilia Society Hopes Lords Debate Will Bring News On The Implementation Of The Archer Report
Chris James: "After two years of detailed work the Archer Report makes a series of recommendations to strengthen the voice of patients and to properly compensate those affected by this disaster..."

BBC Newsnight Blog - Friday 24 April 2009
When will the government respond to blood inquiry?
Susan Watts: "It's nine weeks since Lord Archer of Sandwell published his thorough examination of this terrible saga, why it happened and what can stop it happening again. The government has yet to respond..."

Disability Now - Friday 24 April 2009
Government urged to implement Archer recommendations
"Lord Archer's report recommends compensation for people with haemophilia and members of their families who have given up work to care for them. It also recommends the issuing of cards entitling people with haemophilia to free prescription drugs..."

The Press Association - Thursday 23 April 2009
Call on blood contamination report
Lord Morris said those affected wanted "closure with the Department of Health, on terms reflecting the severity of the pain and suffering endured by the afflicted and the bereaved."

Independent.ie - Wednesday 15 April 2009
Toll From Hepatitis C Infections Revealed
The report tracked the progress of over 1,700 people infected with Hepatitis C through tainted blood or blood products.

The Plymouth Herald - Saturday 11 April 2009
Man's dying months will be a fight for compensation
"...The victim of an NHS blood blunder who has just been diagnosed with terminal liver cancer is fighting for compensation before he dies." (please also see the comment section at the end of this article...)

Nursing Times - Monday 6 April 2009
Welsh Government Launches Hepatitis Action Plan
The Welsh Assembly Government issued a new action plan to identify people at risk of blood borne viral hepatitis and to improve care for people living with the infection.

ThisIsNorthDevon.co.uk - Thursday 2 April 2009
'Swift Action' Needed For Blood Scandal Victims
Sue Threakall's husband, Bob Threakall, from Birmingham, died in 1991 at the age of 47. He had contracted HIV, hepatitis B and hepatitis C after he was given a contaminated blood product by the NHS to help treat his haemophilia in the 1970s.

The Guardian - Wednesday 1 April 2009
Blood scandal officials may be forced to testify
Lord Penrose, a former high court judge appointed by Scottish ministers to head the inquiry, said yesterday he would use legal powers to force reluctant witnesses to appear and would formally investigate the conduct of UK ministers...

The Scotsman - Wednesday 1 April 2009
Inquiry into infected blood scandal will 'name names' of those to blame
Dan Farthing: "Lord Penrose talked quite strongly about how he would be prepared to name names and I think that is what will be new about Penrose. Lord Archer was not, legally, in a position to talk about actions of individuals."

The Herald - Wednesday 1 April 2009
Contaminated blood inquiry begins
Bill Wright: "People want different things from a public inquiry. Some want to see heads roll - I have heard that from some people. Others want an apology, others want the truth to come out. Others find themselves in financial difficulty."

Aberdeen Press and Journal - Wednesday 1 April 2009
Transfusions investigation attacked by former patient
Bruce Norval: "There are a large amount of documents related to the care of haemophiliacs in Scotland in two libraries in England, which are under the control of the United Kingdom Haemophilia Centre Doctors' Organisation..."

Law Society of Scotland Journal - Wednesday 1 April 2009
Penrose inquiry opens into contaminated blood
...Chaired by Court of Session judge Lord Penrose, the inquiry, set up by the Scottish Government after legal proceedings by the families of two patients who died from infections received through contaminated products, could last up to two years...

STV News - Tuesday 31 March 2009
Inquiry into contaminated blood gets under way
Lord Penrose: "I know that there are some who have argued that this inquiry should be able to deal with compensation. That is not part of my remit."

BBC News - Tuesday 31 March 2009
Contaminated blood inquiry opens
Lord Penrose said: "actions and failures" may be identified... "Neither of those matters will involve finding individuals or institutions legally liable to penalties, or for damages or for breach of duty in a legal sense."

Press Association - Tuesday 31 March 2009
No extra damages for blood victims
"Victims who were infected with hepatitis C and HIV from contaminated blood will not receive extra compensation, an inquiry has heard...."

Scotsman.com - Sunday 29 March 2009
Doctor's Verdict On The Scottish Patient
Sir Kenneth Calman holds the remarkable achievement of having been chief medical officer both in Scotland and in England, advising the Government during the BSE crisis.

The Sunday Times - Sunday 29 March 2009
Synthetic blood could be in circulation within 10 years
Bruce Norval: "One thing that has been proven by haemophilia is that the current monitoring systems don't work for prolonged side effects... This whole synthetic blood thing is brilliant, I applaud the effort that's going into it because of what happened to us. I’d hate for it to happen to anybody else."

ThisIsNorthDevon.co.uk - Thursday 26 March 2009
Help Combat The Contaminated Blood Disaster
Sue Threakall wrote to highlight the plight of those infected and affected by the contaminated blood disaster.....

Cordis News - Thursday 26 March 2009
Updated EC Legislation On The Protection Of Animals Used In Research Raises Questions
For example, chimpanzees are particularly important for the development of a hepatitis C vaccine because they are the only other primates who are susceptible to the disease.

The Independent - The Statesman.net - Tuesday 24 March 2009
Blood ~ And Infection-Free
In Britain, the project was held up because of the difficulty of finding funding for 'translational' research that attempts to take scientific studies in the laboratory into the earliest stages of commercial development...

BBC News - Monday 23 March 2009
Synthetic Blood From Embryos Bid
The blood should be free of infections like the human form of mad cow disease.

Warrington Guardian - Sunday 22 March 2009
Michael's Battle For Justice Goes On
Michael Kenwright, infected with hepatitis C during a blood transfusion, had a second battle to fight...

Evening Star - Saturday 21 March 2009
Compensation Battle Goes On
Tim Yeo, MP for South Suffolk, said the Department of Health should have taken part in the inquiry

Isle of Wight County Press (IWCP) - Friday 20 March 2009
Infected blood victim speaks out
"If 2,000 people dropped down dead in Ryde High Street there would be national mourning..."

Manchester Evening News - Thursday 19 March 2009
'Test blood for mad cow disease'
Lord Morris says that haemophilia victims of contaminated blood now face a deadly new threat.

Irish Medical Times - Monday 16 March 2009
IBTS looks at vCJD screening tests
THE IBTS is carrying out qualitative research among donor groups.....

The Journal Live - Saturday 14 March 2009
Research prize for blood campaigner Carol Grayson
Carol Grayson, Health campaigner, has won a leading research prize...

This Is Lancashire - Wednesday 11 March 2009
MP demands 'bad blood' debate (with Dave Fielding quotes)
Dr Iddon has asked for a full debate in the House of Commons on the issue. Dr Iddon: "It's long overdue and Lord Archer has done both Houses a service by highlighting this..."

AABB SmartBrief - Tuesday 10 March 2009
U.K. seriously considers compensation for "tainted blood" victims
U.K. government officials are considering compensating thousands of people who received...

Manchester Evening News - Monday 9 March 2009
New hope for 'tainted blood' victims
Demands for compensation are being seriously considered by the government...

Ipswich Evening Star - Monday 9 March 2009
HIV sufferer fights for compensation
Abuse, alienation, loss of livelihood - this is the price one Ipswich man has paid...

The Evening Star (Ipswich) - Monday 9 March 2009
HIV sufferer in battle for compensation
Colin (alias): "Twenty years is a long time to wait for an apology."

George House Trust News - Monday 9 March 2009
Haemophilia and HIV: 'Transfusion roulette'
"In 1970 the distinguished Richard Titmuss had written a book called The Gift Relationship, arguing a system for donating blood was far better than one where blood is bought: the NHS vs the US commercial system."

Daily Mail - Saturday 7 March 2009
Meat eaters face ban on 'clean' transfusions amid new CJD fears
The suggestion by the Government's advisory committee on the Safety of Blood, Tissues and Organs (Sabto)

The Guardian - Friday 6 March 2009
Yesterday in Parliament - Blood
Alan Johnson, the health secretary, would respond "as soon as we are able"... (scroll down the page to the 12th paragraph)

Health Service Journal HSJ - Thursday 5 March 2009
Michael White on contaminated blood
"...Archer told me; officials have ganged up from the start against an inquiry"

Wales Online - Thursday 26 February 2009
Infected blood tragedies
Haydn Lewis: report did not go far enough in accusing previous governments of breaking the law.

This is Cheshire - Thursday 26 February 2009
Imported blood was about saving money
Haemophiliac Michael Kenwright: "I don't think they will even give the report a second glance..."

George House Trust - Wednesday 25 February 2009
Haemophilia, HIV - Failings Condemned
Andrew March, a haemophiliac who contracted both HIV and Hepatitis C through contaminated blood treatments, said he believed that information had been deliberately hidden.

The Australian - Wednesday 25 February 2009
Payout call over blood scandal
"The compensation should be at least as much as the payments under an Irish government program, the inquiry said. It noted that in Ireland those who contracted hepatitis C from tainted blood were paid, on average, pound stg. 750,000..."

BBC News - Tuesday 24 February 2009
Contaminated blood cases 'tragic'
Sue Threakall, from the campaign group from Tainted Blood whose husband died....

The Times - Tuesday 24 February 2009
Edward Purnell, a victim's son, seeks apology over contaminated blood
Twelve days ago, Bob Purnell's son, Edward, said goodbye to his father....

The Times - Tuesday 24 February 2009
Victims of tainted blood scandal deserve higher damages, inquiry says
The report described the incident as "a horrific human tragedy"....

The Sun - Tuesday 24 February 2009
Blood is on Their Hands
David Fielding, victim of the NHS contaminated blood scandal accused governments of murder

The Times - Tuesday 24 February 2009
Commentary: After years of delay, the time has come to pay up
Libby Purves: "Although the NHS meant them no harm, it has done it."

Medical News Today - Tuesday 24 February 2009
Haemophilia Society Welcomes Lord Archer's Two-Year Enquiry (Lord Morris & Chris James quoted)
Chris James: "The Haemophilia Society agrees that an inquiry into the contaminated blood disaster should have been held sooner. We cannot thank Lord Archer and Lord Morris enough for finally making this happen...."

Daily Mirror - Tuesday 24 February 2009
Victims' fury as transfusion Inquiry blasts Government
David Fielding: "My family believe he was murdered and I stick by that. I still can't deal with things unless there's some form of justice for my brother and for what my family's gone through."

Aberdeen Press and Journal - Tuesday 24 February 2009
I was forced to give up work, aged 30
Bruce Norval believes contaminated blood plasma concentrate infected him when he was three...

La Estrella Panamá (Ciudad de Panamá) - Tuesday 24 February 2009
Tainted blood in UK - No One To Blame
"It is difficult to avoid the conclusion that commercial interests took precedence over public health concerns..."

The Journal, Newcastle - Tuesday 24 February 2009
Journal's Bad Blood campaign praised
"...Carol Grayson said she was still waiting for an apology from the Government..."

ABC News - Australia - Tuesday 24 February 2009
US killer blood to blame for 'horrific human tragedy'
"A public inquiry in Britain has found US suppliers of contaminated blood products were mainly responsible for thousands of people being infected with HIV and hepatitis C in the 1970s and 1980s."

Law Society of Scotland Journal - Tuesday 24 February 2009
Tainted blood inquiry calls for higher compensation for victims
Law Society of Scotland: "Health Secretary Kenneth Clarke assured MPs in 1983 that there was no evidence that Aids was transmitted by blood products."

Michelmores Medical Negligence News - Tuesday 24 February 2009
Michelmores respond to `a horrific human tragedy`
`...we would be particularly keen for the government to adopt the recommendation that victims and their families receive full compensation to reflect their unimaginable physical and mental suffering, as well as their losses...`

ABC News Australia (Barbara Miller reports) - Tuesday 24 February 2009
Report released into UK tainted blood scandal
Haydn Lewis: "I don't think an apology now would make any difference to me personally. What I would like is some action from government to actually give me some confidence that if I don't get through, for instance, this liver transplant that's pending..." (transcript)

The Herald - Tuesday 24 February 2009
Scope of inquiry into blood scandal in Scotland "must be widened"
Frank Maguire: "The danger for Scotland is that the Penrose inquiry will find itself in the same position with absolutely no legal powers to force officials or Westminster government ministers to give evidence..."

The Scotsman - Tuesday 24 February 2009
Toxic blood victims deserve millions, says inquiry
...'It did, however, show how ignorant politicians and health practitioners were about viruses in the 1970s & 1980s. In 1983, Ken Clarke, then health secretary, told parliament: "There is no evidence that Aids is transmitted by blood products." '

Michelmores Medial Negligence News - Tuesday 24 February 2009
Justice for haemophiliacs: Daily Telegraph comments on outcome of Archer Inquiry
There could scarcely be a more appalling failure of the public health system than the fate inflicted upon thousands of haemophiliacs who relied upon the NHS for their supplies of blood, only to discover later that they were contaminated...

The Associated Press - Monday 23 February 2009
No individual blame in UK's tainted blood scandal
Britain's government has consistently refused to conduct an inquiry....

The Times - Monday 23 February 2009
Tainted blood case study: 'My family believe my brother was murdered'
As a result of hepatitis, Mr Fielding developed cirrhosis & by 1998 needed a transplant

The Guardian - Monday 23 February 2009
Government procrastination blamed for HIV-contaminated blood tragedy
"The authors of the report said they were dismayed at the time taken by the government & scientific agencies to respond to the dangers of Hepatitis C & HIV infections."

The Guardian - Monday 23 February 2009
'After all these years, after all we have suffered, we want an apology'
Four people speak out about living with HIV or about the death of a loved one

The New York Times - Monday 23 February 2009
Britain: Report on Infected Blood Sidesteps Blame
"...many of the products came from American suppliers that obtained blood from prison inmates..."

The Journal Live - Monday 23 February 2009
Report due on contaminated blood scandal
Later today former Solicitor General Lord Archer of Sandwell will release his long-awaited report...

Sky News - Monday 23 February 2009
Probe Attacks NHS 'Bad Blood' Scandal
Nearly 2,000 haemophilia patients died as a result of "bad blood" transfusions...

The Financial Times - Monday 23 February 2009
Compensation call for haemophiliacs
"The government should pay compensation and cover future health and insurance costs..."

Evening Standard (This Is London) - Monday 23 February 2009
Infected blood victims 'deserve apology and proper compensation'
"The former solicitor general said subsequent health crises such as variant CJD, the human form of mad cow disease, could have been avoided if officials had taken swift action."

Elton John AIDS Foundation - Monday 23 February 2009
Archer Inquiry Publishes Report
Carol Grayson (Haemophilia Action UK): "Attending the Archer Inquiry is also helping me find some closure on this issue."

CBS News - Monday 23 February 2009
U.K.'s Tainted Blood Scandal Probed
"Surviving victims were left bitterly disappointed with the two-year inquiry."

The Telegraph - Monday 23 February 2009
Blood inquiry condemns 'procrastination' which led to thousands of patients being infected...
The authors of the report said they were "dismayed" at the time taken by the Government and scientific agencies to respond to the dangers of Hepatitis C and HIV infections...

Channel 5 News - Monday 23 February 2009
'Bad blood' scandal attacked
The report was highly critical of the "lethargic" progress towards self-sufficiency in blood products - Ireland did it in five years, whereas England and Wales took 13 years.

BBC News Scotland - Monday 23 February 2009
Concern over Scots Hep C inquiry
Frank Maguire: "All these events took place before devolution. The Department of Health had an important role to play in it, and we can't get that evidence."

The Telegraph - Monday 23 February 2009
Victims of contaminated blood inquiry due to hear findings
Chris James: "I think there are real lessons that need to be learned in ensuring that decisions about people's treatment and care are taken in an open and transparent way. Patients have to be involved in that process."

The Telegraph - Monday 23 February 2009
Justice for haemophiliacs
"There could scarcely be a more appalling failure of the public health system than the fate inflicted upon thousands of haemophiliacs who relied upon the NHS for their supplies of blood, only to discover later that they were contaminated."

VOA News (Voice of America) - Monday 23 February 2009
British Tainted Blood Probe Faults US Companies
"The inquiry says U.S. companies that supplied blood continued to use paid-for blood donations from prison populations and other at-risk communities even after alarms were raised about possible risks..."

The Plymouth Herald - Monday 23 February 2009
Patients await 'blood report'
Mr Venton is hoping that today's findings will pave the way for a court case, leading to further compensation or forcing the manufacturers to settle out of court. "The court case has been on hold pending this inquiry..."

Birmingham Post - Monday 23 February 2009
Thousands given contaminated blood
The report noted: "The haemophilia community feels that their plight has never been fully acknowledged or addressed."

Birmingham Post - Monday 23 February 2009
Blood victims 'owed compensation'
"...It said it was difficult to assess whether the lack of urgency in this period arose from "over-hesitant scientific advice" or from "a sluggish response by Government"..."

Birmingham Post - Monday 23 February 2009
Haemophiliacs Await Findings of Inquiry into Contaminated Blood
"...One woman said she had been given a "death sentence", while other witnesses said they felt haemophiliacs had been used as "guinea pigs" so doctors could study the progress of their diseases..."

Daily Mail - Monday 23 February 2009
Call for damages by relatives of 2,000 victims of NHS infected blood scandal
...Mr Mackie, from Melrose in the Scottish Borders, told the inquiry that he and other infected haemophiliacs were used as guinea pigs in Aids research at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.

The Sun - Monday 23 February 2009
Blood is on their hands
David Fielding: "The governments at the time were guilty of murder. The Department of Health and certain hospitals gave patients this blood when they knew of the high risk. The scientific evidence at the time warned them not to, but they went ahead..."

Bristol Evening Post - Monday 23 February 2009
'Worst treatment disaster in the history of NHS'
A haemophiliac living with hepatitis C from contaminated blood has welcomed the outcome of an independent inquiry into what has been called "the worst treatment disaster in the history of the NHS"...

Evening Standard (This Is London) - Friday 20 February 2009
Ministers in imported blood blunder accused of cover-up
Gareth Lewis: victims want an official apology, full compensation for their trauma

Daily Mail - Friday 20 February 2009
Ministers accused of cover-up over NHS imported blood scandal
"Campaign group TaintedBlood told the Evening Standard that Whitehall officials have still not released at least 30 documents to the inquiry panel..."

The Evening Chronicle - Friday 20 February 2009
Widow hails blood inquiry
Ms Grayson and other members of Mr Longstaff's family have fought for more than a decade for an inquiry into what has been described as "the worst treatment disaster in the history of the NHS".

Telegraph - Friday 20 February 2009
Haemophilia patients infected with Hepatitis C and HIV 'should be compensated'
,,,One of the patients who contracted hepatitis C through infected products, campaigner Peter Mossman, said: "I hope the inquiry will draw a line under this. We are all tired and what it over with."

Cardiff Evening News - Friday 20 February 2009
Haydn Lewis - Living with HIV and haemophilia
Like any new grandparent, Haydn Lewis was thrilled to welcome his first grandchild into his Cardiff home. But as the carpenter from Penylan played with his week-old grandson, it did not escape him this was a moment he thought he would never live to see...

The Guardian - Wednesday 18 February 2009
UK could import more blood to counter BSE risk from transfusions
Safety Advisers considering increasing blood imports to reduce the risk of vCJD infections

Medical News Today - Wednesday 18 February 2009
Haemophilia Society Demands Urgent Action On VCJD Blood Transmission
Chris James, Chief Executive of the Haemophilia Society commented saying: "This terrible news..."

BMJ - Wednesday 18 February 2009
Haemophilia patient had variant CJD agent in spleen
"It is the first time the vCJD agent has been found in a patient with haemophilia or anyone treated with a plasma product." (Extract only)

The Telegraph - Tuesday 17 February 2009
Thousands at risk of human form of mad cow disease after haemophiliac's death
Thousands of haemophiliacs are at risk of developing vCJD...

Daily Mail - Tuesday 17 February 2009
Blood transfusion fears after haemophiliac contracts vCJD for the first time
Thousands of haemophiliacs have been warned they are at risk of the human form of mad cow disease after a sufferer became the first to contract the condition...

The Independent - Tuesday 17 February 2009
First case of haemophiliac vCJD
Professor Catchpole (HPA): "This new finding may indicate that what was until now a theoretical risk may be an actual risk to certain individuals who have received blood plasma products, although the risk could still be quite low."

The Telegraph - Monday 16 February 2009
First man dies after contracting 'mad cow disease' from clotting agent
Prof Marc Turner, (SNBTS) called for samples from vCJD patients to be released so that a test being developed by the company Amorfix to diagnose the disease before death could be perfected.

Sunday Mirror - Sunday 15 February 2009
Blood plasma can give you CJD
...Government experts will reveal this week that an elderly haemophiliac got incurable vCJD through contaminated plasma, a special form of sterilised blood...

Telegraph - Sunday 15 February 2009
Scientists warn of first ever case of human mad cow disease from blood plasma
Professor Hugh Pennington: "This looks like pretty grim news for a group of people who have been through fire and water for so long; they have already had increased exposure to hepatitis B and HIV.."

The Guardian - Monday 26 January 2009
Government withholding blood scandal evidence
The government is accused of withholding documents that could be vital to uncovering...

The Guardian - Friday 21 November 2008
'I'd faced death - the shame was worse'
Daniel Parker and his brother Jason were teenagers when they found out that doctors had given...

Medical News Today - Thursday 23 October 2008
Variant CJD And Blood Transfusion
Patient died from vCJD after receiving blood transfusion from donor who subsequently also had vCJD

BBC News - Monday 20 October 2008
Blood test for vCJD 'unrealistic'
Screening donated blood for vCJD is unrealistic & would scare away donors, government advisors say...

The Evening Times - Thursday 25 September 2008
Scot hits out over "betrayed" HIV victims
Gary Kelly said a meeting last Thursday further excluded his group...

Aberdeen Press and Journal - Thursday 4 September 2008
Cabinet to look again at contaminated transfusions
Bruce Norval: "It's an issue of decency because 5,000 people have been affected. If that many had died because of flooding, the Queen would be visiting the area. So why are we not recognised?"

The Associated Press - Monday 25 August 2008
Victims of Britain's tainted blood scandal speak out
Robert Mackie trembles with rage when he describes how he and his wife were kept in the dark about his HIV infection...

BBC News - Thursday 12 June 2008
Infected blood answers 'needed'
A haemophiliac from Worcestershire is to hear the last day of an inquiry into how she and thousands of others were given infected blood products...

The Southern Reporter - Wednesday 30 April 2008
AIDS Victim Claims: 'What Happened To Us Was Murder'
He believes the group was deliberately used as guinea pigs.....

The Herald - Thursday 7 February 2008
Judicial inquiry is needed for blood tragedy
Gary Kelly: "We have been given a life sentence, with no chance of parole"

BBC News - Tuesday 5 February 2008
Hep C Patients' Rights 'Breached'
Lord Mackay of Drumadoon has quashed a decision not to hold fatal accident inquiries

Daily Mail - Friday 11 January 2008
Mother condemns 'appalling' treatment of blood blunder soldier
Andrew Evans: "It just seems to be that nobody has learnt from past mistakes..."

Positive Nation - Saturday 1 December 2007
Tainted Blood
"We think about the hundreds of children orphaned..."

The Guardian - Monday 3 September 2007
Government in dock as HIV couple sue US drug firms in blood scandal
American judge says case is best heard in Britain (Action may increase 1991 payouts to haemophiliacs)

Arkansas Times - Thursday 16 August 2007
Bloody awful - How money and politics contaminated Arkansas's prison plasma program
Last April, a British widow vented her frustration over a now-defunct state program in Arkansas...

The Scottish Government News - Friday 27 July 2007
Hepatitis C Awareness
Nicola Sturgeon today took part in a walk to raise awareness of Hepatitis C

New Statesman - Monday 16 July 2007
Tainted blood - Kelly Duda
Infected blood, the American filmmaker, and allegations of a government cover-up...

The Scotsman - Thursday 12 July 2007
Lord Owen alleges a 'cover-up' over 1,757 blood deaths
"A former doctor, Lord Owen said he found this alleged cover- up "extraordinary" and suggested the shredding was instigated to prevent legal action by victims who were infected by HIV & Hepatitis C."

The Telegraph - Thursday 12 July 2007
HIV blood disaster papers 'were pulped'
Lord Owen: "There was resistance in the department to go for self-sufficiency. I suspect it was the deep financial pressure we were coming under for the health service budget."

The Guardian - Wednesday 11 July 2007
HIV Case Study: 'I feel like I'm poisonous'
Andrew March was 13 when he was told he had HIV...

The Bolton News - Sunday 17 June 2007
MP called to "bad blood" inquiry
Bolton MP Dr Brian Iddon has been called to give evidence at the inquiry...

The Sunday Herald - Sunday 17 June 2007
Health department branded "arrogant" over blood inquiry
Campaigners have branded the Department of Health "arrogant" and "unfit for purpose" for failing to attend an Independent Inquiry...

Channel 4 News - Thursday 14 June 2007
Lord 'horrified' by blood disaster
Lord Jenkin of Roding: "horrified" to discover after leaving his department how widespread...

Medical Laboratory World - Wednesday 6 June 2007
Blood samples from haemophiliacs may be used for research
"Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust has confirmed blood samples from haemophiliac patients could be..."

The Guardian - Tuesday 5 June 2007
HIV transfusion victims unaware of virus for decades, inquiry told
"the Department of Health had failed to identify those affected or adequately highlight the problem"

The Bolton News - Tuesday 5 June 2007
HIV Blood Scandal Victims Could Still Be Undiagnosed
David Fielding, who contracted Hepatitis C following this treatment, is now demanding everything is done to find and counsel those who could be contaminated with either of the two deadly illnesses.

BBC News Wales - Monday 4 June 2007
Haemophiliac speaks for victims
Haydn Lewis: "There are now in total over 1,700 widows out there who to date have never.."

The Daily Mail - Monday 4 June 2007
HIV blood victims 'may be unaware of infection'
Peter Stevens: "We have people coming to us who have had HIV for more than 20 years..."

The Observer - Sunday 3 June 2007
Patients' Fury over blood test 'betrayal'
"Doctors at NHS hospital carry out 'mad cow' analysis without permission" (Royal Free haemophiliac samples)

New Statesman - Friday 1 June 2007
Sentenced to a life on death row
Haydn Lewis: "Without consent or being informed of the known risks, I was prescribed commercial..."

The Guardian - Thursday 31 May 2007
The Definition of Evil
Gary Kelly: "As a non-haemophiliac who received HIV-contaminated blood in the 1980s..."

Lancashire News - Monday 28 May 2007
Brother's fury at contaminated blood revelations
David Fielding: David Fielding: "...never been so angry" after it was revealed the Government knew of the risks...

The Telegraph - Sunday 27 May 2007
Whitehall accused of HIV cover-up
"Campaigners yesterday accused the Government of a "scandalous cover-up" in withholding evidence..."

The Guardian - Saturday 26 May 2007
Infection risk of imported blood 'known in 70s'
More details emerged last night of the way government advisers handled the haemophilia scandal

BBC News Scotland - Saturday 26 May 2007
Blood infection probe to be held
"A public inquiry is to be held in Scotland into how people were infected with hepatitis C &HIV..."

The Guardian - Friday 25 May 2007
Government knew of HIV risk from imported blood
Expert panel (CSM) decided against import ban - since then 1,757 have died (this was a front page story with an accompanying picture of a bag of blood)

Manchester Evening News - Friday 25 May 2007
"AIDS risk was known"
Government health advisers knew patients were at risk of contracting Aids from imported blood

The Scotsman - Friday 25 May 2007
'Used as HIV guinea pigs but no-one even told us we had been infected'
"16 haemophiliacs had become infected from one batch of blood & Prof Ludlam failed to inform patients..."

BBC News (Newsnight Article) - Friday 25 May 2007
'Advisors ignored blood HIV risk'
"More evidence suggests UK health advisors ignored warnings which could have prevented..."

The Telegraph - Friday 25 May 2007
Officials 'knew of Aids risk' in US blood imports
Government advisers were aware that patients were in danger of contracting Aids from imported...

The Daily Express - Friday 25 May 2007
AIDS Blood Risk 'Known in 1983'
"...perceived level of risk does not at present justify serious consideration of such a solution"

Channel 4 News - Thursday 24 May 2007
Government blood scandal role probe
Jenny Willott: "The Government is using every trick in the book to keep hidden the full facts..."

The Guardian - Sunday 20 May 2007
Number 10 hiding blood scandal facts
Inquiry finds the truth on shredding was withheld after infected transfusions killed 1,700 patients

BBC Question Time - Tuesday 15 May 2007
Patricia Hewitt answers your questions
On Question Time (Thursday, 26th April 2007), Caroline Flint, health minister, stated quite clearly: "If you make an allegation, back it up with evidence & we'll investigate".

BMJ - Saturday 28 April 2007
Bad Blood - What's The Story
Rebecca Coombes: An inquiry has begun into the infection of thousands of people with haemophilia...

Medical Laboratory World - Wednesday 25 April 2007
Contaminated blood warning went unheeded, claims inquiry witness
Carol Grayson, whose husband died as a result of receiving contaminated blood, told the inquiry: "Had the Public Health Laboratory Service warning been heeded, I believe many lives could have been saved..."

The Herald - Tuesday 24 April 2007
More heads should roll after doctors' fiasco
Gary Kelly: "...maybe we will find out the truth as to why the government buried its head in the sand despite being told of the problem by the World Health Organisation."

The Sun - Friday 20 April 2007
Blood jabs wrecked boys' lives
A mum told yesterday how one of her sons got HIV and the other Hepatitis C after being used as "guinea pigs" as kids by the NHS...

This is Lancashire - Friday 20 April 2007
Apology called for after NHS blood "disaster"
David Fielding: "We've fought hard to get this story told but the one thing I'm still waiting for is an apology. I hope somebody has the guts to say sorry."

Guardian Letters - Friday 20 April 2007
Blood inquiry would be in my interest
Gary Kelly: "Health minister Caroline Flint informs us she's glad the introduction of HIV therapy has kept some of us alive."

The Daily Star - Thursday 19 April 2007
Contaminated blood inquiry begins
http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news_detail_pa.html?sku=1176909180168070-H6 (link not working)

The Mirror - Thursday 19 April 2007
Bad blood tragedy kills 2,000
"Victims and patients gave harrowing accounts of their suffering."

The Mirror - Thursday 19 April 2007
Did I inject my son with HIV?
"...I started to shake. I instantly thought: I have injected my son with infected blood."

The Northern Echo - Thursday 19 April 2007
Blood inquiry hears testimony from relatives
"The former nurse said the medical profession had been negligent in its handling of those suffering from haemophilia..."

The Guardian - Thursday 19 April 2007
Widow accuses doctors over donor blood risks
Sue Threakall: "Warnings were ignored, lessons were not learned and our community was lied to by the people it should have trusted most."

Manchester Evening News - Thursday 19 April 2007
Tragedy of Son Who Dies of AIDS
Joan Hillary and her husband Ged lost their son Gerald in 1989, when he was just 16. The Hillarys have always blamed the government for their son's death.

United Press International - Thursday 19 April 2007
Report says Britain knew of blood risks
Documents obtained by the BBC suggest British authorities ignored warnings about the risk of contaminated blood in the 1970s & 1980s.

The Sun - Thursday 19 April 2007
Killer blood given to kids
British doctors used kids as guinea pigs by giving them blood riddled with HIV and deadly hepatitis.

Manchester Evening News - Thursday 19 April 2007
Plea of tainted blood victims (Pete Mossman & David Fielding interviews)
Mr Mossman said he was shattered when told he had got hepatitis C: "The energy was just sapping out of me....From that day, my life and that of my family, has been destroyed by this...I am still trying to get my case into court after 20 years..."

The Independent - Thursday 19 April 2007
Haemophiliac 'tragedy' should never have happened
Sue Threakall: "I shouldn't actually be here today. None of us should."

The Times - Thursday 19 April 2007
Ministers 'knew risks of using blood from skid row'
...One letter presented to the inquiry showed that in January 1975 the Wilson Government was warned that one of the US companies it bought plasma treatments from sourced all its blood from "skid row derelicts"...

The Times - Thursday 19 April 2007
Contaminated blood inquiry
"Lord Morris said that, of 4,670 such patients exposed to hepatitis C, 1,243 were also exposed to HIV and that, notwithstanding improvements in treatments, only 2,552 patients with hepatitis C and 361 with HIV were still alive. "

The Herald - Thursday 19 April 2007
Inquiry opens into NHS blood 'disaster'
Sue Threakall: "...the gross incompetence should have been acknowledged by the government of the time and dealt with honourably nearly a quarter of a century ago."

Evening News Scotsman.com - Wednesday 18 April 2007
Doctors Didn't Tell Me That I Was HIV Positive For Three Years
Mr Mackie was treated by Professor Christopher Ludlam at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary....

BBC News - Wednesday 18 April 2007
Haemophiliac deaths 'avoidable'
Sue Threakall: "This terrible tragedy should never have happened in the first place, it was wholly avoidable."

BBC News - Wednesday 18 April 2007
Contaminated blood inquiry begins
Lord Archer: "Hopefully, we may discover something that will help for the future & we can learn some lessons."

The Sun - Wednesday 18 April 2007
Deadly NHS blood probe opens
Inquiry hears harrowing stories from victims of what has been described as the "worst treatment disaster in NHS history".

The Daily Mail - Wednesday 18 April 2007
2,000 deaths after doctors 'ignored HIV blood alerts'
Sue Threakall: "You cannot bring back those who have died, but you can demand answers to questions and you can - with our help - reveal to the world the truth about what happened..."

Metro Newspaper - Wednesday 18 April 2007
Relatives attack blood deaths 'lies'
Sue Threakall's husband Bob died in 1991. He contracted Aids when he was given blood-clotting agent Factor 8. Mrs Threakall, 54, of North Devon, told the inquiry that 'gross incompetence' caused all the deaths.

BBC News - Wales - Wednesday 18 April 2007
Haemophiliac not told he had HIV
Haydn Lewis was HIV positive for eight months before he was told... Haydn Lewis, from Cardiff, said he thought it was during this time that his wife also became infected with HIV...

BBC News - Tuesday 17 April 2007
Blood safety warnings 'ignored'
BBC Newsnight Article - Evidence UK scientists ignored warnings

Sky News - Tuesday 27 March 2007
Probe Into 'Bad' Blood Transfusions
Lord Archer of Sandwell: "The purpose of the inquiry is to unravel the facts, so far as we are able, and to point to the lessons that may be learnt."... "Hopefully our findings may help to restore public confidence in the future treatment of patients."

Russell Jones & Walker ~ news (Scotland) - Wednesday 7 March 2007
Fresh call for inquiry into Hepatitis C in blood transfusions
Aidan O'Neill (representing the relatives): "In a sense these are representative actions and the court should not close its eyes to the broader context of them...What is being complained about is systematic failure, not individual negligence...."

The Inverness Courier - Tuesday 27 February 2007
Great campaigner's quest for answers nearing its end
Bruce Norval: “I want to see the truth about what happened and how it happened, and I would like to see finally and once and for all that the needs - in the most general terms - that have been created by this disaster are finally & completely answered..."

The Observer - Sunday 25 February 2007
Anger as 'Hep C widows' left out in the cold
Lord Morris of Manchester: "It is a gross anomaly that widows of those infected with hepatitis C are excluded. It illustrates the piecemeal way this tragedy has been dealt with."

The Telegraph - Monday 19 February 2007
Campaigners win HIV infected blood Inquiry
Lord Morris of Manchester: "It is the only way also to restore public confidence in the safety of blood supplies and Whitehall's ability to react to new viruses."

BBC Scotland online - Monday 19 February 2007
Scots blood virus probe ruled out
Mr Kerr said there would be "no further practical lessons" from an inquiry...

icWales - Monday 19 February 2007
Victims deserve to know HIV truth
Mr Lewis, 50, has fought for answers for more than 20 years...

The Independent - Saturday 16 December 2006
Patients face 'substantial CJD risk'
Twenty four people accidentally given blood transfusions contaminated with the human form of mad cow disease are now at "substantial" risk, an expert said today...

The Guardian - Sunday 26 November 2006
Top China Aids Critic 'Is Seized'
Carol Grayson, the founder of Haemophilia Action UK, had flown from Newcastle at her own expense to talk about her experience of suing the British government and US pharmaceutical companies....

BBC Panorama - Sunday 8 October 2006
The Price of Blood
"At the end of 1993 the law changed in Italy requiring all blood imports not screened for hepatitis and HIV to be destroyed." "...Sitting in a warehouse… ...was £5m worth of old blood, some of it infected with who knows what." (text file)

The Japan Times - Thursday 14 September 2006
Blood battle is about the past and future
Kelly Duda: "There will always be new contaminants in the blood supply... The mentality [the drug regulators] have historically adopted is to wait till [a blood product] kills somebody before we make any changes... So the attitude has to change..."

The Observer - Sunday 10 September 2006
HIV-infected blood victims condemn 'meagre' payout
Last night the proposed payment was condemned as being so 'insultingly meagre'...

The Observer - Sunday 18 June 2006
Blood scandal families' fury at inquiry refusal
Senior legal figures have told The Observer there is evidence of 'significant knowledge of risk and fault'...

The Scotsman - Saturday 17 June 2006
Kerr attacked for refusing inquiry into blood scandal
...Mr Kerr insisted an inquiry would not add "significantly" to an understanding of how the blood supplies came to be contaminated. Andy Gunn, of the Scottish Haemophilia Group Forum, branded Mr Kerr's announcement as a "sham".

BBC Scotland - Friday 16 June 2006
Kerr rules out blood virus probe
"A public inquiry into the infection of patients with hepatitis C has been ruled out by Health Minister Andy Kerr."

The Observer - Sunday 21 May 2006
Copies of lost 'blood row' papers found
"...in a striking new development it has emerged that several solicitors have copies of the documents..."

Newsgroups - Thursday 11 May 2006
HIV sufferers protest Clinton
UK demonstrators hold Bill accountable for deadly Arkansas prisoner-blood...

The Sun - Thursday 11 May 2006
Fury at Clinton over Aids
Bill Clinton was confronted yesterday by angry Britons given blood from Aids-ridden US prisoners...

Glasgow Evening Times - Wednesday 10 May 2006
Clinton checks in to favourite city suite
(link no longer working)

icDumfries - Wednesday 10 May 2006
Clinton: Aids patients in protest
(link no longer working)

BBC News Southern Counties - Wednesday 10 May 2006
Haemophiliac joins Clinton demo
...A man from Sussex who was infected with HIV and Hepatitis C while being treated for a blood disorder is taking part in a protest in front of Bill Clinton... ...The former President was governor of Arkansas...

BBC News - Wednesday 10 May 2006
Clinton warning on global warming
Andy Gunn: "...while Mr Clinton was governor of Arkansas, contaminated blood from prisons was exported to other countries." (read last 5 paragraphs)

The Sun - Saturday 6 May 2006
Lags 'infected' Brits
"...People were shooting up drugs then going to the blood bank. One needle was used 20 or 30 times..." (see second column for article)

The Observer - Sunday 30 April 2006
Tainted blood victims 'were not informed'
"The Observer has seen documents which reveal panic and chaos in the transfusion service..."

United Press International USA - Sunday 23 April 2006
Tainted blood victims allege cover-up
British victims of tainted blood transfusions charge health officials with covering up details of the case by hiding documents

The Guardian - Sunday 23 April 2006
Tainted blood victims allege cover-up
...This compares with a recent case in which a man infected with a variant HIV virus from contaminated blood during surgery was awarded £750,000 after a seven-year court battle with the National Blood Service...

icWales - Sunday 23 April 2006
Dad fights for truth after HIV blunder
Haydn Lewis: "I believe this blood has 20 times the risk of being infected as that given by people who donate for free"

Wiltshire Network News - Friday 21 April 2006
Call for inquiry into haemophiliacs' deaths
Lord Jenkin of Roding said there was now an "unanswerable case for a full and impartial public inquiry into what has been one of the major medical disasters in the NHS."

Observer Blog - Wednesday 19 April 2006
Forgotten Victims
On Sunday we revisited a 15-year-old Observer campaign for justice for the forgotten NHS Aids victims...

Sky News - Wednesday 19 April 2006
Blood Blunder Victims Demand Millions
Gareth Lewis: "I just think lots of mistakes were made and I think people need to hold their hands up and say, 'We got it wrong'."

Pink News - Wednesday 19 April 2006
New calls for HIV blunder inquiry
Margaret Unwin: "They have not even been given the courtesy of a full explanation as to what happened to them, as important documents have been destroyed."

Edinburgh News - Monday 17 April 2006
Haemophilia: the ongoing scandal
Philip Dolan: "Why were the minutes of the then-health minister David Owen's 1975 meeting with officials about improving blood screening destroyed by officials, given that ministerial papers should be held for 30 years?..."

Sunday Observer - Sunday 16 April 2006
Left to die: the hidden victims of an NHS blunder
Gary Kelly: "One minute I was feeling elated about being cured of leukaemia, thinking I had my whole life ahead of me again. The next I was told I was HIV-positive and my world came crashing down."

Sunday Observer - Sunday 16 April 2006
Aids scandal survivors demand new payout
Martin Harvey: "The capital payments given to them in the early Nineties, which were in any case small, have long since been spent, often on the advice of consultants on the basis of their likely imminent deaths."

Sunday Observer - Sunday 16 April 2006
These victims deserve justice
"Ministers should ignore this legal waiver and act humanely. They must increase the financial help available as a matter of urgency."

The Sunday Herald - Sunday 9 April 2006
Safety fears over plasma products Health: Danger in the Blood
Bruce Norval: "They have learned nothing,,, They killed half of Scotland's haemophiliacs and there is no learning from that suffering."

Washington Post - March 2006
Clinton & the killer blood
http://prorev.com/blood.htm

Medical Laboratory News - Wednesday 1 March 2006
Haemophilia Society condemns DH review of blood related infections
Margaret Unwin: "There is no mention of the use of prison blood taken from convicts in the UK - a higher risk group of donors who were more likely to have blood borne viruses that could contaminate entire batches of clotting factor products."

The Sun - Monday 20 February 2006
Brits given US Aids blood
Sun Health Editor Jacqui Thornton writes: "Would haemophiliacs have accepted this blood if they knew where it came from? Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt must look at this urgently. The Government WAS warned."

The Scotsman News - Saturday 14 January 2006
'Destroyed' files key for haemophiliacs given infected blood
"The Executive's FOI material indicates the government knew as early as March 1972 there were serious problems with contaminated blood..."

BBC News Scotland - Saturday 14 January 2006
"All we want is truth and justice"
"Despite years of trying and writing to every MP, MSP, MEP, the police, doctors, parliamentary ombudsmen, the Legal Aid Board, Petitions Committee, you name it we've tried it; consistently every political and legal avenue has been closed to us."

BBC News Scotland - Thursday 22 December 2005
MSPs vote against blood Inquiry
Deputy Health Minister Lewis Macdonald told MSPs a public inquiry would add nothing to the inquiries already held...

BBC News Scotland - Tuesday 15 November 2005
Legal move in Hep C blood battle
Relatives pushing for a judicial review into hepatitis C deaths from infected blood have asked a court to limit the costs in the event their case fails...

The Daily Record - Monday 31 October 2005
Clinton's Scottish Court Warning
"Former US President Bill Clinton may be forced to appear in court over a medical scandal which claimed the lives of innocent Scots..."

Sunday Herald Scotland - Sunday 30 October 2005
Scandal of infected US blood revealed in film exposé
"Many haemophiliacs believe that the UK government colluded with US authorities and giant pharmaceutical companies in the medical disaster."

World Net Daily - Sunday 30 October 2005
Clinton blood scandal exposed in new film
Kelly Duda: "While making this documentary, I lost several things. I lost my president, my home state, my family, many friends, and my innocence,"

The Telegraph - Wednesday 21 September 2005
Transfusion patient wins £750,000 for HIV infection
...At the end of seven years of legal action, the High Court in Birmingham agreed the award after the National Blood Service admitted providing defective blood by failing to screen it for HTLV-1...

BBC News Scotland - Wednesday 1 June 2005
Fresh demands for Hep C inquiry
Lawyer, Raymond Bradley: "By 1982 it should have been appreciated that there was a significant risk of a serious illness, that is now identified as Aids, that was also blood-borne."

Mail on Sunday - Sunday 15 May 2005
Health Chief's cover-up of CDJ blood donor
Mr Middleton: "I have carried this awful secret around for seven years, knowing my son might have unwittingly sentenced these poor people to death."

The Sunday Herald - Sunday 24 April 2005
Haemophiliacs blocked in bid for secret files Hepatitis-infected
Peter Mossman, vice-chairman of the Manor House Group: "I do not believe they have been destroyed. I think it is the biggest cover-up ever. What also appals me is that they still insist they cannot have a public inquiry - it is just incredible."

BBC News Scotland - Monday 24 January 2005
New concern over prisoners' blood
"Scottish prisoners were asked to donate blood for transfusions until 1984, despite concerns that the practice was unsafe, it has emerged..."

Sunday Herald - Sunday 23 January 2005
NHS knew blood for transfusions were contaminated with hepatitis
Blood from Scottish prisoners continued to be used in NHS transfusions during the 1980s despite serious concerns that the practice was unsafe.

The BMJ - Saturday 25 September 2004
Patients informed of increased risk of vCJD...
Up to 4,000 patients in the United Kingdom are being sent a letter this week explaining they may be at increased risk of carrying vCJD because they have received blood products donated by people who have gone on to develop the disease...

The Guardian - Friday 10 September 2004
Patients to be told of blood risk
Carol Grayson, founder of Haemophilia Action UK, said that her husband, Peter Longstaff, had been exposed to contaminated products on 12 occasions after their appeals for him to be put on synthetic alternatives were rejected.

The Sunday Herald - Sunday 5 September 2004
Blood patients plan their own postmortems; Haemophiliacs fear vCJD
At least three patients who received blood and blood products from donors subsequently found to have vCJD, the human form of mad cow disease, are contacting lawyers to organise the postmortem investigations at Edinburgh's CJD Surveillance Unit...

BBC News Scotland - Monday 5 July 2004
Payout hope for Hep C patients
The families want judges to rule that Scottish Health Minister Malcolm Chisholm is breaking human rights law by refusing to hold a public inquiry.

The Guardian - Monday 9 February 2004
Plea for guidance on vCJD risk with bleeding
Peter Longstaff, in Jesmond, Newcastle, already infected with HIV and hepatitis C, is one of those. When he burst a vein, the bloodied carpet was removed by men in biohazard suits...

BBC News Scotland - Friday 23 January 2004
Hep C compensation plan 'derisory'
Payment offer to Scottish Hep C sufferers has been dismissed as "derisory" by Haemophilia Society...

BBC News - Friday 23 January 2004
NHS pays out to hepatitis victims
Payments only to be made to HCV patients infected before Sept. 1991 & alive on 29 Aug. 2003

BBC News - Tuesday 2 December 2003
HIV haemophiliacs: 'Too easy to forget'
Robert James "Although I knew I'd probably been given American products at some point..."

Edinburgh Evening News - Thursday 9 October 2003
Refusal to hold hepatitis inquiry attacked
Solicitor advocate Frank Maguire, a lawyer representing hepatitis C sufferers, said the discussions had gone "very badly". Mr Maguire said: "Having regard to the fact that in Scotland we have about 600 people who have been affected by hepatitis C..."

BBC News - Politics Show Scotland - Thursday 25 September 2003
Scotland: Hepatitis C compensation?
In Ireland, by contrast, the government has been making 'non-fault compensation payments' through a special tribunal. Hepatitis C sufferers can expect to get payments of around 500,000 Euros. So should the Executive be looking at the payments again? ...

BBC News - Tuesday 9 September 2003
Memorial for HIV haemophiliacs
The grove of 1,200 trees at Stratton Wood, near Swindon, Wiltshire, is a living monument...

The Sunday Times - Sunday 7 September 2003
Blood risk for haemophiliacs 'covered up'
Danger of using infected blood products on haemophiliacs was known to government officials 20 years ago...

The Guardian - Saturday 30 August 2003
Haemophiliacs to get cash aid - Reid tries to end row over infected blood products
Lord Morris: "This is a major breakthrough. It can never have been right to compensate people for HIV infection and not for hepatitis C infection if they were contaminated by the same route."

The Telegraph - Saturday 30 August 2003
Payouts for victims of infected NHS blood
Mr Reid: "After becoming secretary of state, I looked at the history of this issue and decided on compassionate grounds that this was the right thing to do in this situation."

BBC News - Scotland - Friday 29 August 2003
Payouts for Hepatitis sufferers
A long-running wrangle between the Scottish Executive & UK Government over payments...

BBC Radio 4 - Monday 21 July 2003
You and Yours
Man with Haemophilia Wins First Stage of Right to Obtain Synthetic Blood (Transcript)

BBC News - Thursday 17 July 2003
Haemophiliac wins health challenge
A man suffering from haemophilia has won the first stage of a legal battle to force a health authority...

The Sunday Times - Sunday 29 June 2003
Haemophiliacs call for inquiry over treatment
Robert Mackie claims he was virtually crippled following three years on the treatment, which was prescribed by his specialist in Edinburgh. In a letter to Chisholm, Mackie claims doctors continually dismissed his concerns that ReFacto was not working....

This is Northeast - Tuesday 24 June 2003
US firm joins haemophiliac court battle
North-east patients are using one of the world's biggest law firms to launch a multi-million dollar legal action...

BBC News - Friday 20 June 2003
Haemophiliac challenges age policy
Haemophiliac, Peter Longstaff, is taking legal action after being refused the latest treatment...

The Guardian - Wednesday 4 June 2003
Law suit for infected blood
An American firm has launched a law suit on behalf of haemophiliacs and survivors of haemophiliacs...

BBC News - World - Tuesday 3 June 2003
Patients launch 'bad blood' suit
Thousands of haemophiliacs have filed a lawsuit in the US against four companies...

San Francisco Chronicle - Tuesday 3 June 2003
Bad blood between hemophiliacs, Bayer: Patients sue over tainted transfusions spreading HIV, hep C
Robert J. Nelson (attorney): "We alleged that they basically turned a blind eye to the screening technologies that were available ... These companies sought to buy blood to ensure their supply. They basically went to prisons..."

New York Times - Thursday 22 May 2003
2 Paths of Bayer Drug in 80's: Riskier One Steered Overseas
By continuing to sell the old version of the life-saving medicine, the records show, Cutter officials...

BBC News - Scotland - Tuesday 6 May 2003
Probe into hepatitis testing
A number of doctors are being investigated after complaints that they broke medical guidelines by testing patients for hepatitis C without their consent.

The Scotsman - Tuesday 6 May 2003
'The doctors never told me I was infected'
"People were tested but the thing is they were not told the results for years..."

BBC News Scotland - Wednesday 23 April 2003
Police report on tainted blood
Prosecutors are to consider whether there should be a criminal investigation into the medical disaster...

The Journal, Newcastle - Monday 14 April 2003
GMC U-turn in blood tests row
Carol Grayson: "We have been unable to get the answers we want from our local hospitals because some records have gone missing and others are no longer available so the GMC was our only hope."

BBC News - Scotland - Tuesday 25 February 2003
Blood compensation 'derisory'
Haemophiliacs have attacked the executive's plans to compensate those who contracted hepatitis C...

The Guardian - Thursday 13 February 2003
Victory for haemophilia patients - Synthetic clotting factor
Carol Grayson: "The government deprived Peter of treatment for the last three years & it has left him in a bad way. They have put them [haemophiliacs] in life-threatening situations. This decision is very late in the day."

The Guardian - Tuesday 21 January 2003
Haemophiliacs 'duped' into tests
...Patients from round the country have only recently become aware of the fact that they had been "secretly" tested. Carol Grayson, chairwoman of Haemophilia Action, has written to health ministers in protest.

Newcastle Journal - Monday 20 January 2003
Silence over secret killer
Hundreds of hospital patients secretly tested for a killer disease were kept in the dark...

Newcastle Journal - Friday 20 December 2002
When blood and money circulate
Carol Grayson: "British & European blood is no longer deemed safe because of the theoretical risk of CJD so America is really the only option... ...But paid donors are not the answer."

The Telegraph - Thursday 28 November 2002
Health Minister Denies vCJD Blood Cover-Up
Scottish health minister Malcolm Chisholm has denied accusations.....

BBC News Scotland - Tuesday 19 November 2002
Blood victims 'may sue' drug firms
People in Scotland who contracted hepatitis C from infected blood products have been considering suing the US drug companies that manufactured them... SNP health spokeswoman Nicola Sturgeon: "It's a moral obligation we have as a society to people infected in the health service..."

The Guardian - Thursday 7 November 2002
Scotland Breaks Ranks Over Payouts For Hepatitis C Patients
Haemophiliacs in England and Wales infected with the liver-damaging hepatitis C virus through tainted blood transfusions had no case for NHS compensation, the government said yesterday...

The Independent - Friday 5 July 2002
French court dismisses Aids-tainted blood case
An appeals court threw out a long-standing case yesterday against 30 people who had been expected to go on trial for their alleged roles in an Aids-tainted blood scandal that shook France's public health system more than a decade ago...

CNN News - Thursday 4 July 2002
French HIV-blood case thrown out
A planned trial of 30 defendants involved in an AIDS tainted blood scandal that rocked France has been thrown out... Former Health Minister Edmond Herve was convicted but not given a penalty.

BBC News Scotland - Thursday 10 January 2002
Minister 'waiting' for blood victim deaths
Bruce Norval: "I think it is just another way of ensuring that more of us are dead and not picking up any compensation at the end of the day..."

BBC News - Thursday 15 November 2001
Boy gets vCJD victim's plasma
A boy with haemophilia has received a blood plasma transfusion from someone who died of variant CJD - the human form of mad cow disease, it has emerged,,, ...The boy's parents are said to be angry that their son was not given a transfusion of a synthetic blood substitute, which would have been risk-free, but about three times more expensive...

The Telegraph - Tuesday 2 October 2001
Blood victims 'should get money'
Bill Wright, Scottish Committee member of the Haemophilia Society: "Determining a suitable amount of financial recognition is very difficult to do without an inquiry."

BBC News - Friday 3 August 2001
Haemophiliac HIV tragedy 'needless'
Lord Owen, Secretary of State for Health in 1975, claimed the Department of Health failed to spend money allocated to stop the import of blood and blood products from abroad...

The Northern Echo - Saturday 21 April 2001
Minister to meet blood campaigner
Carol Grayson, campaigner, is to meet Health Minister Lord Hunt over calls for a public inquiry into contaminated blood. Carol Grayson: "The whole thing is a whitewash and I feel very strongly that it is absolutely essential to have a public inquiry."

BBC News - Wales - Monday 26 March 2001
Hepatitis patients win compensation
A group of patients from Wales infected with the Hepatitis C virus following contaminated blood transfusions have won thousands in damages at the High Court. ...They made their claims against the Cardiff-based Velindre NHS Trust, which is responsible for running the blood service in Wales...

BBC News - Monday 19 February 2001
Inquiry call over infected blood
Dr Peter Jones: "There has, to my knowledge, never been full disclosure of the facts relating to the management and funding of the UK blood and blood product supply"

BBC News - Monday 12 February 2001
Haemophiliacs strike protest
Marc Payton told BBC News Online: "I feel I have got nothing left to lose anymore."

The Guardian - Monday 5 February 2001
CJD link to blood Britain sold abroad
BPL: "We have tried our very best." ...Thousands of patients worldwide, and an unknown number of haemophiliacs in Britain, might have received treatments with the products between 1996 and last year...

BBC News - Tuesday 30 January 2001
Haemophiliacs face vCJD scare
Lord Morris: "This has come as a devastating shock to the haemophiliac community who have already been stricken by HIV and Hepatitis C infection in the course of NHS treatment."

CNN (World) - Tuesday 30 January 2001
Haemophiliacs in vCJD scare
Lord Morris of Manchester said the government was treating the issue as a matter of urgency...

The Guardian - Tuesday 19 December 2000
France Bans Blood From Visitors To UK
The safety of donated blood has been a key concern in France since the "tainted blood" affair of 1985, in which more than 4,000 people contracted the HIV virus from blood transfusions.

BBC News - Scotland - Tuesday 24 October 2000
Hepatitis C - A timeline
Health Minister Susan Deacon has refused to pay compensation to haemophiliacs in Scotland...

BBC News - Scotland - Tuesday 24 October 2000
Service cleared over blood virus
An inquiry has cleared the SNBTS of blame for haemophiliacs contracting hepatitis C...

The Guardian - Wednesday 11 October 2000
Hepatitis C Victims Sue NHS For Millions
The latest claims follow a compensation battle in the 1980s by people infected with HIV through blood, blood products and transplants

BBC News - Scotland - Thursday 10 August 2000
Virus funding row help plea
Scottish Legal Aid Board is refusing to finance claims from hundreds of haemophiliacs...

The Post.IE - Sunday 30 July 2000
The blood drugs debacle that ended in tragedy
"Dr Terry Walsh could not explain to the Tribunal why he had failed to tell the BTSB biochemist charged with heat-treatment about what he and his Board members knew."

BBC News - Tuesday 7 March 2000
No compensation for infected blood
The government has ruled out compensation for haemophiliacs affected by contaminated blood products...

The Guardian - Friday 25 February 2000
Bad Blood
They believe that the incubation period is so long that eventually 400,000 of us may die of it - although this is an absolute upper estimate it is a terrifying possibility.

BBC News - Sunday 21 November 1999
Haemophiliacs pursue compensation fight
Sufferers say the Department of Health was 'warned of the risks'

BBC News - Monday 27 September 1999
Inquiry begins into contaminated blood
An inquiry has opened in Dublin into how haemophiliacs were given blood products infected...

BBC News - Friday 6 August 1999
Ministers in new haemophilia probe
Scottish ministers have promised to examine the cases of haemophiliacs who may have been given blood...

BBC News (Aegis) - Friday 21 May 1999
Minister faces HIV scandal trial
A judge who has been investigating the case for six years, Marie-Odile Bertella Geffroy, now says a former Health Minister, Claude Evin, should be tried for failing to inform victims that they could infect others...

BBC News Europe - Tuesday 9 March 1999
Europe Blood Scandal Ministers Walk Free
...The Association Francaise des Transfuses (AFT) denounced the "two-speed justice which makes some politicians untouchable".

Salon Newsreel - Thursday 24 December 1998
Blood money by Suzi Parker
"An Arkansas prison-plasma business protected by Clinton cronies led to a scandal that almost toppled the government of Canada."

BBC News Online - Thursday 15 October 1998
Hepatitis C campaigners won't take no for an answer
Hints that hepatitis C sufferers may get damages have come from Wakefield MP...

The Independent - Wednesday 29 July 1998
Godsiff to fight on for blood victims
Mr Dobson's decision not to pay compensation yesterday angered thousands of haemophiliacs infected with the deadly liver virus hepatitis C...Mr Godsiff said Mr Dobson had come under pressure from health officials & the Treasury...

BBC News Online - Tuesday 28 July 1998
Government rejects compensation for haemophiliacs
Campaigners have reacted furiously to the decision that has been eagerly awaited for 10 months...

BBC News - Wednesday 22 July 1998
Hepatitis sufferers on the march
Campaigners are marching on Downing Street to lay 90 white lilies on the steps

BBC News Online - Wednesday 22 July 1998
Hepatitis sufferers in Commons protest
Seven haemophiliacs chained themselves to the railings outside the House of Commons in protest....

BBC News - Europe - Monday 15 December 1997
Hundreds given contaminated blood in Ireland
Nearly 270 people in the Irish Republic have been given a blood product containing plasma from a British donor, who died of new variant CJD, the human equivalent of Mad Cow Disease...

New York Times - Tuesday 11 June 1996
Blood, Money and AIDS: Hemophiliacs Are Split;Liability Cases Bogged Down in Disputes
The clotting producers had quietly settled many claims, but individual lawsuits had failed because most states shield blood products from traditional product-liability claims. Still, damaging documents were emerging...

The Independent - Wednesday 16 November 1994
Hepatitis C may bring repeat of haemophiliacs' Aids battle
...The settlement, under John Major, came only two months after Margaret Thatcher and Kenneth Clarke, the then Health Secretary, had ruled it out. But William Waldegrave, Mr Clarke's successor, said he had "seldom seen a stronger humanitarian case''...

The Independent - Wednesday 16 November 1994
Contaminated blood kills 12
Twelve British men with haemophilia have died from the liver disease hepatitis C after they were given contaminated concentrates of blood. All 12 men died last year. At least 2,000 more people are infected, & 4 have had liver transplants as a result.

Discover Magazine: 'Blood Money' - Sunday 1 August 1993
Why are French hemophiliacs dying of AIDS? Because French officials knowingly gave them tainted blood.
It began in 1985 in France...in one of the most shameful episodes of the AIDS epidemic, physicians & government officials there knowingly allowed at least a thousand people to receive blood or blood products contaminated by the virus...

The Financial Times - Tuesday 23 June 1992
French HIV Blood Trial Opens
"The prosecution claims that the four men knowingly allowed the contaminated blood to be distributed, and were aware that the blood could have been made safe through a heat process already in use in the United States, Britain, & Germany."

New Scientist - Saturday 8 July 1989
Haemophiliacs urged to sue
"Mr Justice Ognall said that, to preserve confidentiality, plaintiffs would be identified in court by code names...." "...They can choose between suing health authorities, the Committee on Safety of Medicines or the Secretary of State for Health."

New York Times - Monday 16 May 1988
Hemophilia and AIDS: Silent Suffering
"For the youngest patients, there are different problems. Some parents have told their young sons to keep their hemophilia a secret. These parents fear that other children will not play with their sons or that they will be kept out of school..."

Media Centre of Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP - Current
Press Articles on the Lawsuits by Persons with Hemophilia
http://www.hemophilia-litigation.com/media.htm (The Media Centre here has text of some Sunday Times articles that are no longer available on the web)