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Manchester Royal Infirmary Haemophilia Centre sent a letter to a witness to the Inquiry which offered AIDS antibody testing.

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People treated at the Belfast Haemophilia Centre had memories of meetings being held there. Some attendees recalled Dr Elizabeth Mayne giving those present the choice of whether they wanted to know the result of their HIV test.

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Mark Stewart transcript recorded his father died in 2002, from hepatocellular cancer, and his brother was diagnosed with liver cancer in 2008. He died in 2013. Mark felt he may suffer the same fate. No one in their family was warned of the risks of treatment with concentrate, nor that liver function would be tested and monitored. Mark learnt he had Hepatitis C only in 2007.

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Trevor Marsden was only told that he had Hepatitis C when he attended the Belfast Haemophilia Centre for a routine blood test in 1996.

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Dr Mayne recalled three open meetings being held in which patients, members of portering, catering and cleaning staff were all invited to attend and express their worries and queries about HIV infection.

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Dr Pettigrew wrote to Dr Taylor to inform him that the stored samples for a young boy, who had previously been treated at the RHSC, were tested for HIV and found to be positive.

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The parents of a witness to the Inquiry were informed their son was HIV positive in 1987 or 1988, some 2 or 3 years after he had tested positive.

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David Watters informed Dr Rizza that haemophilia patients at Raigmore Hospital and Aberdeen Royal Infirmary were not being advised or told their HIV status. This followed from a 14 year old boy being told of his HIV antibody status despite none of his family knowing.

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A draft letter was prepared by Glasgow Royal Infirmary to send to all patients, inviting them to be tested for AIDs.

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A letter was sent out by Glasgow Royal Infirmary offering to discuss AIDS at the next clinic appointment, or earlier if the patient would wish it.

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Mr Colin Catterall was told he had Hepatitis C, roughly 30 years after he was infected.

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A witness to the Inquiry was told they had Hepatitis C roughly 40 years after they were first infected.

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Rosamund Cooper accidentally discovered her Hepatitis C diagnosis when it was casually mentioned by a doctor during a pre-operative chat.

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Dr Jones stated "John Craske tells me that they will hopefully soon be in a position to test all our patients for HTLV3 antibody and the families know that. They alsoknow that they will be told the results."

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The small prospective study of cryoprecipitate treatment showed no evidence of infection with hepatitis or HIV viruses after careful follow up of each patient for one year.

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Study on the inactivation of HTLV-III/LAV during plasma fractionation whose results indicated that steps in large scale plasma fractionation, especially ethanol at -5C and low pH, reduced the risk of plasma products being infectious should the source material be contaminated by HTLV-III/LAV.

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Scottish patients with haemophilia, most of whom had received no American factor VIII concentrate for over two years, were found to have immunological abnormalities. This included a reduced proportion of T helper cells an increased proportion of T suppressor cells, and a reduced response to eoncanavilin A.

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In the summer of 1985 two meetings regarding HIV and AIDs were held at Pendlebury that called for the attendance of parents of children with bleeding disorders.

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There was no system of batch dedication, despite their being some evidence of attempts to introduce one towards the end of 1984 or 1985 where there were attempts to introduce one.

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Dr Willoughby did not attend UKHCDO meetings and Dr Pettigrew asserted that Dr Willoughby did not disseminate UKHCDO material to her and her more junior colleagues at Yorkhill about NANB Hepatitis

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