Blood Banking

Committee Studies HIV Contaminated Blood

Published in Blood Weekly, July 24th, 1995

A failure of leadership coupled with uncertainty about the threat posed by AIDS allowed the nation's blood supply to become contaminated with HIV in the early 1980s, a medical committee says.

"No person or agency was able to develop and implement a coordinated strategy, largely because there was no consensus about the magnitude of the threat and the costs, risks and benefits of proposed remedies," said Dr. Harold C. Sox Jr., chairman of the committee and head of the department of medicine at Dartmouth Medical School.

The committee issued a report July 13, 1995, that found mistakes or omissions at all levels of the blood supply system in the public...

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