Epidemiological relation between HIV and hemophilia

Name the epidemiological relation between HIV and hemophilia infection?

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As hemophilic patients require frequent transfusions of clotting factors (VIII and IX) they are much susceptible to contamination by infectious agents existed in the blood from which the transfused elements come. In past, the blood banks did not generally perform HIV detection tests and lots of hemophilic patients have become infected with the virus.

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