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Young Love Upended By Sudden Diagnosis
- Claire and Brian fell in love young, married, and faced shock when Brian tested positive for HIV shortly after.
- Claire recounts the abrupt, uncaring delivery of the diagnosis and the immediate fear it brought to their lives.
Home Treatment Masked Systemic Risk
- Hemophilia patients needed factor VIII because they lack clotting protein and used it to self-inject at home.
- That convenience masked the risk that pooled plasma products could transmit bloodborne infections.
Treatment Became Transmission Vector
- Factor VIII transformed hemophilia treatment by enabling home injections from pooled human plasma.
- That plasma-derived product later carried a deadly infection that reached the very patients it aimed to help.