Support and information available

Haemophilia Centres

The Haemophilia Centres, where patients are usually treated for all of their conditions, are often able to provide support to haemophiliacs infected with HIV and their partners or families. This could be, for example, through support groups or counselling.

Find your nearest Haemophilia Centre here.

Nationally, the Haemophilia Society offers advice, support, information and services to people with haemophilia, including those affected by HIV.

The Macfarlane Trust exists to give help to people with haemophilia who have been infected with HIV and to their families and dependants.  The Trust’s brief includes the assistance of its members both financially and socially.  It administers the ‘recompense’ payments and the hardship fund set up by the government.

The Birchgrove Group is a support network of men and women affected by haemophilia and HIV.

Tainted Blood

Tainted Blood is a campaign for compensation and a public inquiry into the events which led to British haemophiliacs becoming infected with HIV and Hepatitis C in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

Support and advice is available from THT Direct from 10am until 10pm weekdays and from mid-day until 6pm at weekends.