Sky News published this video item, entitled “Infected blood scandal: I will take the suffering I witnessed ‘to my grave'” – below is their description.
Chair of the review into medicines safety Baroness Cumberledge says she is “delighted” the government has agreed to offer £100,000 in compensation to victims of the infected blood scandal, which saw 2,400 people die from contracting HIV and hepatitis C.
Although despite the news of compensation from the government, Ms Cumberledge said she would take the suffering she and her team witnessed “to her grave” because it was “simply appalling”.
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In This Story: HIV
The human immunodeficiency viruses (HIV) are two species of Lentivirus (a subgroup of retrovirus) that infect humans. Over time, they cause acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), a condition in which progressive failure of the immune system allows life-threatening opportunistic infections and cancers to thrive.
Without treatment, average survival time after infection with HIV is estimated to be 9 to 11 years, depending on the HIV subtype. In most cases, HIV is a sexually transmitted infection and occurs by contact with or transfer of blood, pre-ejaculate, semen, and vaginal fluids. Research has shown (for both same-sex and opposite-sex couples) that HIV is untransmittable through condomless sexual intercourse if the HIV-positive partner has a consistently undetectable viral load.
Non-sexual transmission can occur from an infected mother to her infant during pregnancy, during childbirth by exposure to her blood or vaginal fluid, and through breast milk. Within these bodily fluids, HIV is present as both free virus particles and virus within infected immune cells.
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