Tainted blood scandal
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The terms tainted blood scandal, contaminated blood scandal, or infected blood scandal may be a reference to:
- Contaminated haemophilia blood productsContaminated haemophilia blood productsContaminated hemophilia blood products were a serious public health problem in the late 1970s through 1985. These products caused large numbers of haemophiliacs to become infected with HIV and hepatitis C...
- Factor 8: The Arkansas Prison Blood ScandalFactor 8: The Arkansas Prison Blood ScandalFactor 8: The Arkansas Prison Blood Scandal is a feature length documentary by Arkansas filmmaker and investigative journalist Kelly Duda. Through interviews and presentation of documents and footage, Duda alleges that for more than two decades, the Arkansas prison system profited from selling...
, the investigative documentary by Kelly DudaKelly DudaKelly Duda is an American filmmaker and activist from Arkansas. Duda spent seven years making Factor 8: The Arkansas Prison Blood Scandal.Variety magazine described Duda as "a pit bull with a bureaucratic bone" who "follows subjects fearlessly and ventures into hostile environs comes away, most of...
that exposes the tainted blood sales from Arkansas prisons. - Health Management Associates scandalHealth Management Associates ScandalHealth Management Associates is a defunct Arkansas-based company involved in a blood-management scandal during the 1980s.-HMA scandal:The Health Management Associates Scandal refers to the sale of tainted blood from HMA to Canadian blood banks.HMA was contracted by the state of Arkansas to provide...
, the Canadian tainted blood scandal that began in 1986. - Royal Commission of Inquiry on the Blood System in CanadaRoyal Commission of Inquiry on the Blood System in CanadaThe Royal Commission of Inquiry on the Blood System in Canada, more commonly referred to as the Krever Commission or Krever Inquiry, was a Royal commission headed by Mr Justice Horace Krever established by the Canadian Government in October 1993...
- HIV-tainted blood scandal (Japan)HIV-tainted blood scandal (Japan), refers to an event in the 1980s when between one and two thousand haemophilia patients in Japan contracted HIV via tainted blood products. Controversy centers on the continued use of non-heat-treated blood products after the development of heat-treatments that prevent the spread of infection...
, or - Infected blood scandal (France)Infected blood scandal (France)France's Infected blood scandal began in April 1991 when doctor and journalist Anne-Marie Casteret published an article in the weekly magazine the L'Événement du jeudi proving that the Centre National de Transfusion Sanguine knowingly distributed blood products contaminated with HIV to...
- Tainted blood scandal (United Kingdom)Tainted blood scandal (United Kingdom)Contaminated blood was given to many thousands of people in the United Kingdom during the 1970s and 1980s.The Independent Inquiry into Contaminated Blood and Blood Products, chaired by Baron Archer of Sandwell, aimed to uncover the causes of the events that led to thousands of infections and deaths...