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Thousands dead, 40 years of cover-up: time for justice for infected blood victims

The Sunday Times has campaigned for decades on behalf of the families who lost loved ones to NHS experiments. Weeks before compensation was finally promised, we told some of their stories and issued a call to action

None of the NHS scandals I have written about for decades matches the scale of tragedy and the callous deceit in the tainted blood affair, writes Ian Birrell

Colin Smith, a boy who had developed a bruise on his knee a few months after his birth, was the first case I wrote about. This indicated that he had inherited haemophilia.

'The end of a 40-year fight for justice': Victims of infected blood scandal say they are 'emotional and nervous' ahead of publication of final report into worst treatment disaster in NHS history

Tens of thousands of people in the UK were infected with deadly viruses after they were given contaminated blood and blood products between the 1970s and early 1990s.

'This disaster was no accident': Damning infected blood report finds litany of failures led to unimaginable suffering - including children being treated like research projects and 3,000 deaths which 'should and could have been avoided'

More than 3,000 have died and many continue to suffer after tens of thousands of vulnerable NHS patients were infected with HIV and hepatitis.