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Contaminated blood scandal: Could some deaths have been prevented?

21 May 2019

Campaigners are giving evidence to an inquiry into the haemophilia treatments that infected thousands of people with HIV and hepatitis C in the 1970s and 80s

UK relaxes blood donation rules for gay men and sex workers

26 July 2017

A review says blood screening tests are now accurate enough that gay men only need to abstain from sex for three months before giving blood

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Contaminated blood scandal: Could some deaths have been prevented?

UK relaxes blood donation rules for gay men and sex workers

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