Blood Banking (International)

Japan AIDS Expert Considered Suicide

Published in Blood Weekly, March 24th, 1997

A doctor who was once Japan's top AIDS expert revealed at his negligence trial that he contemplated suicide when he was blamed for a scandal over the use of HIV tainted blood products on hemophiliacs.

In the first session of his court hearings, Takeshi Abe pleaded not guilty to charges of professional negligence in the death of a young hemophiliac who had contracted HIV through unheated blood products. Abe, 80, was arrested in August 1996 when the mother of the hemophiliac filed murder charges against him.

The scandal involved allegations of a government cover-up and unethical links between big business and bureaucrats. Abe's case is the first of a...

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Source: Blood Weekly (1997-03-24)

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