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Update on the 1986-1990 Hepatitis C Compensation Program
As the result of the latest actuarial study to the end of the year 2019, the Joint Committee announced in early 2021 that the Fund...
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Justice Krever is no longer with us … but his legacy is very much alive
The Commission of Inquiry on the Blood System in Canada was a public investigation of the Canadian blood system, which had been contaminated with HIV...
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Commemoration of the tainted blood tragedy
The tainted blood tragedy is incontestably the worst public health disaster that Canada has ever faced. Today, October 27, anniversary of the creation of the...
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Memorial art – helping to prevent future calamity … helping to heal
by Rick Waines, British Columbia In 1983 I was 17 and attended my first WFH meeting in Stockholm, Sweden, and at the opening plenary Dr....
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CHS reacts to Health Canada decision on relaxing donor selection criteria
April 28, 2022 (Montreal) – “The Canadian Hemophilia Society (CHS) is disappointed that Health Canada has not followed our advice regarding the changes to donor...