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EPISODE · Dec 2, 2025 · 54 MIN

The costs of the Infected Blood Scandal

from When Humanitarians Kill · host Charles MacKenzie

Send a textImagine your family blindsided by a catastrophe so sudden and devastating that life is split into “before” and “after.”In this powerful episode, Charles and Lyn break open the hidden human costs of public health failures especially tragedies like tainted blood transfusions and contaminated blood treatments. With honesty and urgency, they explore what survivors and families endure long after the headlines fade: the medical, financial, emotional, and generational toll that reshapes every part of life.Whether you’ve lived through a public health disaster or want to understand the real impact behind the statistics, this conversation pulls back the curtain on a crisis that should never have happened and must never happen again.The unanimously agreed recommendations by the Senate of Australia on how recipients of HepC tainted blood should be treated.  21 years later not a single recommendation has been implemented leading to more family break ups and suicides, whilst the health minsters and culpable bureaucrats involved in the failures have made fortunes from the tax payer. https://static.wixstatic.com/media/ddd792_d174655d85034579a3f726b6cd4bf03f~mv2.jpgAustralia has committed $48m to HIV for FIJi whilst Australians with HIV from tainted blood treatments are forced to visit food banks to survive. https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/fijis-hiv-crisis-and-what-australia-is-doing-to-help/hp1x1osisPlease support  a petition for a Royal Commission of inquiry into the Australian Red Cross/CSL Infected blood scandal here https://www.infectedbloodaustralia.com/registrationHelp fund the legal case by purchasing a Make Accountability Happen Again cap here https://joinhighadventure.com.au/patriot-cap/

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