The Iraqis were infected with HIV through contaminated blood products in 1980 civil suit
Three groups in Iraq - including about 35 Iraqis who have HIV have been infected through contaminated blood products in the 1980s - a civil suit against the Department of Health and countrys two companies have submitted, which sells blood products, reports New York Times. The lawsuit was filed by the Iraqis 35 years, relatives of others who have been infected with the virus and died, and the Society of Iraqi Red Crescent. After Hakki, director of the Society of Iraqi Red Crescent, 189 people aged between six months and 18 years have HIV through blood products sold by residents of France Institut Mérieux and Immuno AG, based in Austria to Iraq since the contract from 1982 to 1986 (from Zielbauer, New York Times, 4.9).Government of the former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein has
these cases, responded in quarantine hemophiliacs and their families in hospitals. In 1991, Hussein HIV / AIDS amnesty, but people with HIV are still not allowed to marry or maintain jobs during his government (Kaiser Daily HIV / AIDS, 10/24/03). The complaint alleges that Merieux, the Sanofi-Aventis and Immuno by Baxter International, which acquired the blood was sold, was bought was contaminated and suspect that the Ministry of Health negligent, that the blood should be administered to patients .Baxter spokeswoman Deborah Spak, said the company does not discuss the litigation. He added that the Iraqis should have been infected with HIV out products Baxter Immuno AG Companys subsidiary, is the contact for such claims. According to Hakki, Sanofi-Aventis officials in November 2005
between $ 5,000 and $ 25,000 Iraqis who are HIV infected have to pay through Merieuxs products or their families, but the Iraqis refused. A spokesman for Sanofi-Aventis said the company does not comment due to ongoing litigation by the Times.Department of Health attorney Nazar Mahdi said the government is trying to resolve the matter. In addition, officials said Mahdi Iraq Ministry of Health, Ministry of Justice, the Presidency find zithromaxPages: [1] 2