Infected blood scandal: victims to receive lifelong support under compensation scheme

People who contracted HIV or hepatitis after receiving contaminated blood products in the 1970s and 1980s, and their bereaved partners, will receive lifelong support plus a payment to recognise the effects the infection has had on their lives under a multibillion pound compensation scheme, the government has confirmed.Victims who were subjects of unethical research will receive an additional £10 000, and almost 100 children with haemophilia subjected to research while pupils at Lord Mayor’s Treloar’s College in Hampshire will receive a higher award of £15 000.More than 30 000 people in the UK became infected with HIV or hepatitis after receiving blood products for haemophilia or blood transfusions in the 1970s and 1980s in the worst treatment disaster in NHS history, and at least 3000 have died. For many years the UK failed to achieve self-sufficiency in blood products so imported products from US commercial companies derived from paid-for, often…
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