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US campaigner Ken Baxter (long standing friend of Grayson and her late husband Longstaff) protests at a National Haemophilia Foundation meeting in 1997 regarding one of the pharmaceutical companies that supplied contaminated blood products to haemophiliacs in both the US … Continue reading →

Some campaigners are claiming “anonymity” at the Infected Blood Inquiry but outing themselves on social media (Image Grayson Protest Archives) The Contaminated Blood scandal has traumatised those who were infected with HIV and hepatitis viruses through their haemophilia treatment and … Continue reading →

Open email to the Infected Blood Inquiry, 24th October 2022 sent by this author and core participant to the Infected Blood Inquiry chaired by Sir Brian Langstaff Dear All, (VERY IMPORTANT… Alpha Therapeutic, Abbot, Green Cross, Unit 731, Manchuria, China) … Continue reading →

This week journalist Susan Douglas (previously of the Mail on Sunday) finally gets the opportunity to give evidence to the Infected Blood Inquiry and respond to an official complaint made against her back in 1983 by haematologist Dr Peter Jones … Continue reading →

This week has been one of mixed emotions for haemophiliacs given contaminated blood and their affected partners that have fought long and hard over decades for both a public inquiry and proper compensation for all. Haemophiliacs were born with an … Continue reading →

Haemophiliacs were infected with HIV and hepatitis viruses during the 1970s and 80s through their factor concentrate treatment for an inherited bleeding disorder. They discovered years later that much of this treatment was imported from the US and made from … Continue reading →

Haemophiliacs infected with HIV and hepatitis viruses through contaminated blood during the 1970s and 80s believed their long wait for compensation was finally about to end in 2009. The Archer Inquiry was set up in 2007 by Lord Archer of … Continue reading →

For decades women whose blood had a clotting deficiency were told even by some care providers that they could not be haemophiliacs. WRONG! Although most haemophiliacs with the inherited bleeding disorder are men, there are female haemophiliacs too, though only … Continue reading →

On Friday the 28th July 2022, Susan Deacon gave evidence to the Infected Blood Inquiry chaired by Sir Brian Langstaff which is investigating how haemophiliacs became infected with HIV and hepatitis viruses through their factor concentrate, blood product treatment in … Continue reading →

The author of this post Carol Grayson (Haemophilia Action UK) and her colleague Colette Wintle (Independent campaigner) both of whom have fought for decades for the victims of what Lord Winston called “the worst medical treatment disaster in the history … Continue reading →