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Scientists have taken a big step toward making an effective HIV vaccine.

As much as the seven-volume report that it launched, Sir Brian Langstaff’s remarkable speech yesterday at the Methodist Central Hall in Westminster was a milestone in the history of the modern British state. Its specific theme was the contaminated blood scandal in which 30,000 people were infected with HIV or…

Infected blood inquiry has revealed children at Lord Mayor Treloar College between 1970 and 1987 were ‘treated like guinea pigs’

The Independent looks at what Lord Clarke is accused of, and why campaigners want his peerage removed

More than 30,000 people were infected with HIV and hepatitis via blood transfusions in the 1970s and 1980s

Linda Inez Leccese has been charged with soliciting after she tested positive for HIV

More than 3,000 people died and many others were left with lifelong health problems after being given contaminated blood

Damning public inquiry has laid bare failings of worst treatment disaster in the history of the NHS

Pupils were viewed as ‘cheaper than chimps’ at Hampshire school where Richard Warwick was infected with HIV and hepatitis C

Tens of thousands of patients ‘knowingly exposed to unacceptable risks of infection’ in biggest treatment scandal in NHS history

Children were used as “objects for research” while the risks of contracting hepatitis and HIV were ignored at a specialist school where boys…