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The issue of donations of blood by prisoners was discussed at a meeting of the SNBTS directors. The meeting was attended by representatives of SHHD.

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The Mail On Sunday carried an article by Susan Douglas under the headline Hospitals using killer blood.

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Malcolm Harris wrote to Duncan MacNiven regarding the Advisory Group on the Virological Safety of Blood. He explained the DHSS would like to establish the committee as soon as possible.

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In Scotland, the SNBTS did not wait for the DHSS's revised AIDS leaflet but made its own amendments some time in 1984.

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An article in The Lancet called Acquired Immunodeficiency in an Infant: Possible Transmission by Means of Blood Products was appended to a letter from Dr Galbraith to Dr Field. The article referred to cases of AIDS in people with haemophilia in the US receiving Factor 8 concentrates.

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The Scottish Office was headed by the Secretary of State for Scotland (a member of the UK Cabinet).

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The Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report carried a report of pneumocystis pneumonia in three haemophilia patients in the US.

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An article in The New Scientist called AIDS: transfusion patients may be at risk reported blood transfusion patients faced the risk of AIDS.

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An article in The New England of Journal of Medicine called Opportunistic Infections and Kaposi's Sarcoma in Homosexual Men reported 160 cases of immune failure in young homosexual men were being investigated.

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The Advisory Group on Testing for the Presence of Hepatitis B Surface Antigen and its Antibody produced its third report. The report recommended the establishment of a committee of experts to assess the value of any new tests for hepatitis markers which could be used in testing blood donations and preparations of large pool blood products.

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Michael Forsyth wrote to Roger Freeman agreeing to the formation of the Advisory Committee on the Virological Safety of Blood.

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The Edinburgh and South East Scotland RTC prepared a draft leaflet on AIDS and blood transfusion which asked various groups to refrain from donating blood.

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The terms of reference of the Advisory Committee on the Virological Safety of Blood were set out.

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The UK Working Party on Transfusion-Associated Hepatitis met for the fourth time.

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Dr John Cash wrote to John Watt suggesting they needed to formally consider the question of blood collection sessions in prisons and whether they should be abandoned.

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Dr John Cash wrote to Dr Brian McClelland mentioned the upcoming statement on AIDS by the English minister and the decision to leave the distribution of leaflets to the discretion of individual RTDs. The Scottish minister was to follow the same approach, with the Scottish Office Information Division issuing a press release based on the English minister's statement.

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The annual report for 1978 on Prisons in Scotland recorded the practice of blood donation sessions in prisons.

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Dr Anne Smith (the donor consultant at the Edinburgh and South East Scotland Centre) issued internal guidelines for the handling of blood and blood products.

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At the SNBTS Directors and Haemophilia Directors meeting the risk AIDS transmission through blood and the effectiveness of the current leaflet on prevention was discussed.

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An article from the Sunday Times held that there was now conclusive proof that AIDS had been passed to a hospital patient through a blood transfusion.

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