At least 175 children were initially reported to be infected, but a new inquiry into the scandal has estimated the number to be more than double.
Around 380 children have been infected with HIV through blood products in the UK, an inquiry has found.imported from the US during the 1970s and 1980s. It is thought about 2,400 people died as a result.
Jenni Richards KC, counsel to the Infected Blood Inquiry, said the 175 figure derived from the HIV Haemophilia Litigation as the number who were still children at the time of the settlement. "The Inquiry estimates that the number of people who were children when infected is more than two times that number," she wrote.The new estimate was based on the proportion of children among people with bleeding disorders, using data published in The Lancet in 1996 and figures provided by the UK Haemophilia Doctors' Organisation.
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