Media reports in Almaty on June 14 said that five patients at the Central Hospital in Kazakhstan's largest city had become HIV-positive via tainted blood transfusions. The Almaty city health directorate said a special commission was established on June 2 to investigate the situation. This is not the first case of HIV spreading in a hospital in Kazakhstan. More than 50 children became HIV-positive via tainted blood transfusions in 2006 in the South Kazakhstan region. To read the original story by RFE/RL's Kazakh Service, click here.
Five HIV Infections Blamed On Tainted Blood At Almaty Central Hospital
Five patients at Almaty's Central Hospital in Kazakhstan have become HIV-positive via tainted blood transfusions. (file photo)