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‘There is no victory’ – infected blood campaigner

Source: PA Archive

There can be “no victory” for people affected by the worst treatment disaster in the history of the NHS, a campaigner has said, as officials prepare to publish the final report of the Infected Blood Inquiry.

Jason Evans’ first campaign meeting took place when he was aged one – when his father, infected with HIV and Hepatitis C after receiving the Factor VIII blood product, took him to meet their MP to seek advice on potential compensation.

Mr Evans has few memories of his father Jonathan Evans, who died when he was just four years old.

The 34-year-old, from , said the last

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