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    Contaminated blood scandal: What happened and what are the victims demanding?

    by Tamara Davison May 02, 2024 3 minutes
    Source: PA Media

    Government officials have confirmed that people impacted by the infected blood scandal are set to receive interim payments as part of an extended compensation scheme. 

    In the 1970s and 1980s, at least 30,000 people were thought to have contracted hepatitis C and HIV as a result of contaminated blood imported from the US.

    Thousands of Brits are thought to have died as a result of what's been considered one of the NHS's worst healthcare disasters.

    Campaigners for the contaminated

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