“Every day was a struggle dealing with the knowledge he was HIV and Hepatitis C positive.”
“Mum always said she was given a death sentence,” remembers Ronan Fitzgerald. His mother, Jane, died at the age of 54 from Hepatitis C, which she contracted when she was 16. “It was a ticking time bomb.”
More than 30,000 Britons became infected with HIV and Hepatitis C after receiving tainted blood products in the 1970s and 1980s.
The scandal has claimed the lives of around 3,000 people, while many more continue to suffer from health issues, debilitating treatments, and stigma. Now, the outcomes of a public inquiry were first announced.
