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Approximately 380 children were infected with HIV through blood products in the UK, an inquiry has found.
Thousands of patients were infected with HIV and hepatitis C through contaminated blood products in the 1970s and 1980s.
It had previously been reported at least 175 children were infected, but an inquiry looking into the fiasco has estimated the number to be more than double.
Jenni Richards KC, the counsel to the Infected Blood Inquiry, wrote: "The Inquiry's current view of the number of children likely to have been infected with HIV through blood products in the UK is that the figure of 175 derives from the HIV Haemophilia Litigation as the number who were still children at the time of the settlement.
"The Inquiry estimates that the number of people who were children when infected is more than two times that number. "
The inquiry now says around 380 children were infected, making up a third of the total number.
It came to the estimate after basing it on the proportion of children among people with bleeding disorders, data published in The Lancet in 1996, and figures provided by the UK Haemophilia Doctors' Organisation.
The fiasco occurred after the UK struggled to keep up with demand for treatments tackling the blood-clotting condition haemophilia and other bleeding disorders and began importing infected products from overseas.
Worst treatment disaster in the history of the NHS
About 2,400 people died in what has been called the worst treatment disaster in the history of the NHS.
Most of those involved relied on regular injections of the US product Factor VIII to survive.
They were unaware they were receiving contaminated product from people who were paid to donate, including prisoners and drug addicts.
Patients were injected for years despite repeated warnings at the top of government.
And some victims were infected after receiving blood transfusions.
New cases of HIV and hepatitis continued to be diagnosed decades after the first contaminations, resulting in many early deaths.