People Given HIV Infected Blood Transfusions

EDM number 1077 in 1990-91, proposed by Roger Sims on 04/07/1991.

That this House regrets the decision of the Government to refuse to extend to others infected with HIV through blood transfusion the special help given to haemophiliacs; considers that a fatal infection by National Health Service treatment is no ordinary medical accident; believes it is unreasonable to penalise people infected in this way because of the Government expectation that they should depend on insurance and family support; and calls upon the Government to treat equally all those given infected blood, whether haemophiliac or not, because they are bound together by the tragedy of their collective death sentence.

This motion has been signed by a total of 82 MPs.