Contaminated blood inquiry: Former health minister Clarke to give evidence

Contaminated blood inquiry: Former health minister Clarke to give evidence Lord Clarke will give evidence under oath to the contaminated blood scandal inquiry later - the first senior health minister from the time to testify.

Around 3,000 people died after being given blood products containing HIV and hepatitis C in the 1970s and 1980s.

As late as November 1983 the government said it was not conclusively proven that HIV could be transmitted through blood products. BBC News