BBCKaren Stirrat and Charmaine Lacock have fought for years to learn the truth about hospital-acquired infections at Glasgow's flagship hospitalFor years they felt stonewalled, lied to and gaslit. Now ...

Getty ImagesThe infected blood inquiry is holding two more days of hearings amid concerns about the government's response on compensation, with campaigners warning they are "losing faith".It comes nearly ...

Sian VivianBBC Wales InvestigatesWyre DaviesBBC Wales InvestigatesTony Summers, whose son died after contracting HIV and Hepatitis C from infected blood products, says he "just wants this to be over"Victims ...

ReutersSome 30,000 people were infected with HIV and hepatitis C from contaminated blood products and transfusions between 1970 and 1991Ministers have given the Infected Blood Compensation Authority (IBCA) the ...

Getty ImagesThe government has announced it will push ahead with compensation payments to infected blood victims.The previous government had announced the scheme in May following publication of the public ...

Mr Sunak described the release of the report as a "day of shame for the British state" and vowed to pay "comprehensive compensation" to those affected and infected by ...

The Tainted Blood campaign group chairman, Andy Evans, who was infected with HIV and hepatitis C as a child through his haemophilia treatment, said publication of the report would ...

It was not until 2017, under Theresa May, that an official inquiry into the scandal was set up, following years of campaigning by victims.The inquiry, chaired by former judge ...

There has been a surge in demand for hepatitis C tests since the BBC revealed that hundreds of people in the UK were unknowingly infected with the virus, the ...

Giving evidence, blood expert Professor Marcela Contreras told the inquiry that in some parts of the country there was blood in the system which had not been tested for ...

Campaigner Andy Evans said it has raised awareness of those given infected blood products. Source link

Image source, Getty ImagesBy Jim ReedHealth reporterThousands of people in the UK were infected with HIV and hepatitis C after being given contaminated blood products during the 1970s and ...