Kelly Duda spent eight years of his life making a documentary chronicling how thousands of people around the world were negligently infected with HIV and viral hepatitis from blood transfusions. The American filmmaker was in Westminster telling his story to the independent inquiry that aims to uncover the British government’s part in a scandal that led to thousands of infections and deaths.
In the 1970s the British government began importing blood products in part sourced from American prisons in an attempt to cut costs and to tap into a larger blood bank.
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