Hemophilia and HIV infection

Specify epidemiological association between hemophilia and HIV infection?

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Since hemophilic patients require frequent transfusions of the clotting factors they are more susceptible to contamination by the infectious agents which are present in the blood from which transfused elements come. In past the blood banks did not normally perform the HIV detection tests and several hemophilic patients have become infected with the virus.

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