"HIV Positive" <hiv.positive@gmail.com> wrote in message

India has to have the worse health-care.
All of their doctors are in the US and the UK.

I posted a story some years back about India and their
road-side collection of blood. It was not screened for any-thing,
just sold as is.

Monday, August 28, 2000
HIV-tainted blood shipped to Asia

Deutsche Presse-Agentur in London

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South Africa - Blood contaminated with HIV and hepatitis has been shipped to China, India and
other countries via Britain from South Africa for 20 years, a World Health Organisation
investigation has revealed.

The Sunday Times of London said a multimillion-dollar racket had been exposed in the WHO
report, which said the blood, coming from one of the nations most seriously affected by Aids,
was often labelled "animal plasma" to avoid strict checks designed to ensure that only healthy
blood gets through.

Investigations so far show that the blood has mainly been moved on to China and India, where
thousands faced contamination from it.

There was no evidence that any of it found its way into British hospitals. British police are
now consulting other European forces over the investigation.

At least two British companies, one based in Guernsey and the other in Berkshire, have been
investigated by Austrian detectives.

Police say unscrupulous processing companies in several countries relabelled the contaminated
blood as fit for therapeutic use, then sold it on to China and India.

Several blood brokers are due to appear in court in Austria, facing charges of fraudulent
trading and endangering public health.

The newspaper said a British Aids expert, Alan Smith, initiated the investigation when he
alerted police after he uncovered what he described as the "highly unethical" trafficking while
he worked in the virology department of Natal University in South Africa.

His complaints led the South African Department of Health to commission a WHO blood expert,
Wilbert Bannenberg, to investigate. His report estimates that in the past decade the brokers
made more than US$10 million (HK$78 million) from processing and relabelling blood and blood
products made from donations in South Africa that are given free as "a gift of life".

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South China Morning Post.