AIDS and blood transfusions

AIDS and blood transfusions

While AIDS is killing more and more people in France, the focus is on measures taken in transfusion centres to prevent contamination by blood and its derivatives (plasma, platelets and blood cells). We know that 2% of cases are contaminated with the AIDS virus through blood, and we now know that blood products can be contaminated, based on the results of a study of 3,000 bottles of blood hospital in the Paris region. A screening test currently in production at the Pasteur Institute will be used in all blood banks. The specialists interviewed minimise the risk of contamination, citing "healthy" carriers who will never develop the disease. The commentary on images of blood conditioning, laboratory tests and blood donation trucks alternates with the interview of Professor Jacques ROUX, Director General of Health Secretariat of State.

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File : Tainted blood case

Publication date : 6 March 1985