To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many haemophiliacs have been infected by (a) hepatitis C, (b) AIDS and (c) both hepatitis C and AIDS as a result of NHS treatment for their illness. (69581)

Most patients with haemophilia who were treated with blood products before the introduction of virus-inactivation procedures were infected with the hepatitis C virus.

The number of haemophilia patients infected with HIV/AIDS is 1,243. Most patients infected with HIV were co-infected with hepatitis C.