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SNBTS minutes recorded decision to introduce surrogate testing next year.

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Letter in The Lancet from SNBTS suggested that surrogate testing was "inescapable".

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DHSS granted funding for multi-centre study.

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The Chiron Corporation identified and cloned Hepatitis C virus.

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Dr Craske wrote to Dr Barbara that he did not favour the use of anti-HBc screening.

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At the meeting of the regional transfusion directors, it was noted that the most risky populations might had been identifiable by anti-HBc markers, however no further discussion took place.

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At a meeting of the UK Working Party on Transfusion-Associated Hepatitis, Dr Barbara observed that the anti-HBc test had the value of association with Hepatitis B and NANBH as well as AIDS.

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The CBLA Working Group on AIDS discussed surrogate screening and asked Dr Brian McClelland to submit outline proposals for prospective study.

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The CBLA Working Group on AIDS agreed that a protocol for a study should be drawn up.

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Dr Wallington presented the protocol for a study on surrogate screening at the CBLA Central Committee for Research and Development in Blood Transfusion.

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Application for funding from the MRC was made for the prospective study.

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Direct testing for HTLV-3 was thought to be in the offing.

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Universal screening of blood donations for HIV commenced in the UK.

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Professor Robert Gallo announced that he had identified the virus causing AIDS.

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An internal DHSS minute said that a screening test needed to be introduced "as quickly as possible".

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An article in The Guardian noted the use of a UK screening test.

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The Lancet reported that 34% of people with haemophilia receiving pooled clotting factors had tested positive.

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The first meeting of the Working Group on AIDS unanimously agreed that donors should undergo HTLV-3 antibody testing.

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The CMO made a public statement following a report in The Guardian of two cases of alleged AIDS transmission through blood donations.

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Ministers were asked to approve the use of a screening test for AIDS antibodies in the NBTS.

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