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Blood: Contamination

Volume 461: debated on Monday 11 June 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many known haemophiliacs who acquired HIV and hepatitis C through blood transfusions there are in (a) Kent and (b) the UK. (140358)

Data are not collected on the number of patients with haemophilia infected with HIV and hepatitis C who are living in Kent. Data for the United Kingdom are provided in the table.

Estimated number of haemophilia patients infected through contaminated blood products who are alive

Hepatitis C1

2,538

HIV2

360

1 Estimated data from the United Kingdom Haemophilia Centre Directors’ Organisation National Haemophilia Database.

2 Data from the Macfarlane Trust.