UK blood scandal: Victims await report into HIV and hepatitis C infected blood treatments | BBC News

The final report of the public inquiry into the UK's infected blood scandal will be published on Monday.
More than 30,000 people were infected with HIV and hepatitis C, from 1970 to 1991, by contaminated blood.
The scandal has been called the biggest treatment disaster in NHS history, with victims campaigning for years.
Some of the treatments were imported from the US where blood was bought from high-risk donors such as prison inmates and drug-users.
One victim said any potential apology from the government "won't bring back the dead".
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[@tomhenry897]

No investigation

[@breal7277]

"U. S. companies were aware that their products were infected with viruses." Let that sink in.

[@henty1596]

This is a crime against humanity.

[@zeebee2019]

This is not negligence. They knew exactly what they did.

[@juanritanjaya6254]

Knowingly giving kids HIV? That is on an absolutely crazy level of evil. The people responsible dont deserve forgiveness

[@charmainer9030]

This is absolutely dreadful and the fact that victim's are only just getting an investigation 30 years too late, is absolutely evil and vile.

[@Dani_1012]

What the hell, how isn't this international news? This is actually a huge negligence and incredibly EVIL

[@superken7813]

I been donating blood in HK for ten years and every time when i fill out the form they ask if you were in UK during that time and have you ever received blood transfusion from UK or US

[@TheBooban]

Focus is on compensation? Why nobody in jail?

[@Kirimah]

Imagine your life being cut short because of someone's negligence... And then it takes them decades to get justice?? What a world😢

[@Becky19002]

My grandfather passed away in 2010 in Canada from Hep C because of this. Losing him was one of the biggest most painful losses. Am I angry? Yes

[@christaallen2105]

This is sick 30,000 families affected by this and it takes them this long!! People need to go to jail!

[@sebebalios1906]

When I was 17, I got a letter from a Canadian Medical office stating that I was in a risk group for receiving possible contaminated blood during a surgery when I was 7, it took 10 years for them to contact me. It took 3 long stressful weeks to get results, fortunate for me I was very lucky to have not received contaminated blood, I can't imagine what those poor souls went thru after finding out they are infected with god knows what!

[@reversetransistor4129]

As Blood donor in Portugal, you have to declare that you wasn't living in UK by that time.

[@MP-nj1qy]

People, if you're having a scheduled surgery and are healthy enough, be proactive and take action early on and ask your doctor for an autologous blood donation. Your blood will be taken and saved for you after surgery. You got to do it early enough though so your body can replenish before surgery like 1-2 months prior surgery.

[@maxxibro]

Don't they tested the blood beforehand? That is just cruel.

[@Trund27]

This is a monstrous injustice over two continents.

[@illuminati_Bal]

Criminal charges should be brought to the people in charge

[@ObviousAshleyy]

My dad died in 2015. He had hemophilia. As a child, when receiving a blood transfusions, he contracted HIV from one of those transfusions…

[@fortunezag7567]

This sounds like the Tuskegee study which saw some 600 African American men who were recruited into the study for 40 years. They were not told the exact purpose of the study. The most horrendous part being the fact that they were denied treatment even when medication was developed. Most of them died needlessly. So much wockedneess!