2024-07-29
41 分钟In the early 1980s Jason Evans' father was given a blood product called Factor 8 to treat his haemophilia, which infected him with HIV. He was one of thousands of people in the UK who were unwittingly infected with blood-borne viruses from blood products and infusions, despite the dangers being already known. Jason's father died when he was just four, and he spent most of his life campaigning for the truth about what happened. Presenter: Mobeen Azhar Producer: Julian Siddle Get in touch: liveslessordinary@bbc.co.uk or WhatsApp: 0044 330 678 2784
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It was just like a bomb dropping.
They'd only been married for around a year before my dad was told of his infection.
So it was just devastation as it was for many, many families.
This is a story which begins in an era of widespread fear, misunderstanding.
It's the 1980s.
The AIDS epidemic is in the headlines constantly.
And for some people, like Jason Evans and his parents, its impact is much more personal and much closer to home.
The search to understand events which occurred in his early childhood and even before he was born have sent Jason on a lifelong journey.
A quest for truth and justice, but also to connect with his father.
Probably the thing that has driven me to keep pursuing this is because I'm kind of consciously, unconsciously chasing, trying to know who he was and I never really will.
Jason's father was one of the casualties of what has become known as the infected blood scandal in which more than 30,000 people in the UK contracted deadly viruses from contaminated blood and blood products.
I'm Mubin Azhar and this is lives less ordinary.
Jason never got to know his father really.
He lost him when he was just a child.