When a new treatment for blood disorders reaches the UK, haemophilia patients and their doctors welcome the ‘wonder drug’. But soon they are proven horribly wrong. Show more
Lauren Palmer’s whole world fell apart when both her parents died because of HIV-infected blood products in 1993. She was just nine years old. Show more
Colin Smith was just two years old when he tested positive for HIV. A haemophiliac, he’d been treated with contaminated Factor VIII blood product. Show more
Some patients with haemophilia were kept in the dark for years about the risks from US-made Factor VIII blood clotting products. We ask doctors how this could have happened. Show more
After being given a brand-new American product to treat their bleeds, young haemophilia sufferers are told the grim news – that some of them have been infected with HIV. Show more