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India and has to be imported thereby making treatment extremely costly and impossible at times for a middle class Indian family.

Haemophiliacs, who cannot afford Rs 6,000-Rs 10,000 a month to buy the clotting factor, would need to have regular blood transfusions. But the greatest risk is that these transfusions can expose them to deadly diseases like HIV/AIDS or Hepatitis A or C. This is sadly the case of one patient, Vineet Oberoi, contracted the HIV/AIDS virus during a routine blood transfusion.

Explaining that both his brother and he were both haemophiliacs. His brother died of AIDS a few years ago, while he was diagnosed with AIDS last year. He explained that he was diagnosed with haemophilia in 1975 and received treatment in an army hospital in Delhi cantonment. Later he was detected HIV positive in 1989, he claims that it was due to the blood transfusion that he and his brother became HIV positive.

Haemophilia may be a rare disorder but as it has such intense health implications it needs for a more than a drastic step to raise awareness by the government and health officials.

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