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Listed below are comments made by see_it_through between Saturday, 25th April 2009 and Saturday, 25th April 2009.

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When will the government respond to blood inquiry? 6:38pm on 25 Apr 2009 A big thank-you to Susan Watts and the Newsnight team for continuing to flag up this important issue and highlighting the consequences for those who received contaminated NHS blood.

Ten years ago it was almost impossible to get an article in the press as this subject was seen as a "dead" issue. Successive governments had convinced Jo Public that there was no need to hold a full and open public inquiry by releasing a false statement that "all the information was in the public domain". Campaigners showed that this was not the case. They fought to have thousands of documents released (at least those that were not already "inadvertantly shredded by an over- zealous junior civil servant")!

Lord Warner had gone down in Hansard with yet another incorrect claim saying that the situation in Eire was different, the Irish government accepted "legal liability" therefore the British government would not pay out recompense on a parity with Eire. I was in fact able to secure supportive letters from both Irish lawyers and the Irish government blood policy department stating that Lord Warner was entirely wrong, Eire had in fact paid out on "moral" grounds. Despite continued efforts from Lord Morris in several debates to higlight the truth, haemophiliacs have still not received an apology to date, this is a disgrace!

The media has recently played a important role in securing the hearts and minds of people beyond the haemophilia community who have joined us in our efforts to secure justice. The general public are firmly behind us now. To that end I recently received news from an old school friend who has taken up the cause with Andrew Lansley, the shadow health spokesman in the commons. It seems there has also been a change of heart here too. Lansley states that the Tories welcome the report - criticise the Department of Health for not providing witnesses to the public inquiry and will hold the government to account if they do not implement the recommendations of Lord Archer. Lets ensure then that the Tories keep to their word!

The author of this post lost her husband and brother in law to "bad blood" set up campaign group Haemophila Action UK and was awarded the Michael Young prize for her research on the global blood trade.

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