Government to open talks with &quot;forgotten victims&quot; of tainted blood ...
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OTTAWA (CP) - The federal government says it will open negotiations on compensating the forgotten victims of the tainted blood scandal - those infected with hepatitis C before 1986 or after 1990.
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Sri Lanka's key lenders will hold fresh talks with Tamil Tiger rebels to assess tsunami damage amid hopes of finalising a reconstruction plan estimated to cost 1.5 billion dollars, officials said.
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The government is set to act against profiteering from blood that is donated by the public for free. Humphrey Zokufa, a chief director in the national department of health, said the government intended to
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Federal health officials said they were investigating dozens of blood infections in at least two states that have been linked to contaminated medical syringes.
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OTTAWA (CP) - In a major policy shift, the federal government says it will consider compensating thousands of people infected with hepatitis C through tainted blood before 1986 and after 1990.
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After six years of saying no, the federal government is considering financial compensation for thousands of &quot;forgotten victims&quot; who got potentially fatal hepatitis C from tainted blood.
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Seeking to repair the political damage from a massive Belfast bank robbery, Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern prepared Tuesday to meet with Sinn Fein leaders, in his first talks with the IRA-linked party since the Dec. 20 theft.
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Nepal's government is due to hold talks with former Maoist rebels, a day after they said they were leaving the cabinet.
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The government is to launch what it says is the country's biggest public consultation on tackling drugs.
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PARIS France&#39;s health minister is calling for hospitals and police to work more closely after the gruesome killings of two workers at a mental hospital.
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The Sri Lanka Red Cross on Monday demanded a probe into the killing of two of its volunteers amid a rash of abductions and murders in a renewed civil war, and urged the government and Tamil Tiger rebels to respect human rights.
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Officials are calling on family members of persons missing since the terrorist attacks in Egypt to give DNA samples which will be cross matched against tissue samples from the bodies as identification efforts continue.
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China is to launch a nationwide survey of people who sold their blood in the 1990s as it tries to track down HIV/AIDS victims, state television said on Wednesday.
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A support group for Australian victims of contaminated medical products has demanded a royal commission into claims a former government agency knowingly released to the public polio vaccines contaminated by a monkey virus.
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Members of the public who visited areas frequented by the late Russian ex spy Alexander Litvinenko shortly before he fell ill have been asked to contact health authorities.
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Thai and international health officials  were due to meet on Monday to review a case in which there is a  "very remote possibility" birdflu was passed from human to  human, a senior WHO official said.