§ Mr. CousinsTo ask the Secretary of State for Health how many haemophiliac patients have died of HIV/AIDS following the use of contaminated blood products; and how many of these have been co-infected with hepatitis. [143854]
§ Mr. Denham1,240 United Kingdom haemophiliacs were infected with HIV as a result of National Health Service treatment. Of these 813 have died. 99 per cent. of these patients were co-infected with hepatitis.
§ Mr. CousinsTo ask the Secretary of State for Health for what reasons it is his policy that haemophiliac patients should not be entitled to have recombinant factor VIII. [143852]
§ Mr. DenhamWe have instructed health authorities to provide recombinant products to new patients and children under 16 with haemophilia.
Ministers will be meeting with the Haemophilia Society and the United Kingdom Haemophilia Centre Doctors Organisation in January to discuss the case for provision of recombinant clotting factors for all haemophilia patients in England.