{"id":19542,"date":"2019-03-03T14:37:36","date_gmt":"2019-03-03T14:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.wordpress.com\/?p=19542"},"modified":"2019-03-03T14:37:36","modified_gmt":"2019-03-03T14:37:36","slug":"charity-profited-from-dying-hiv-patients-via-punishing-equity-deals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2019\/03\/03\/charity-profited-from-dying-hiv-patients-via-punishing-equity-deals\/","title":{"rendered":"Charity profited from dying HIV patients via punishing equity deals"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i2-prod.mirror.co.uk\/incoming\/article14078453.ece\/ALTERNATES\/s810\/0_Claire-Walton-and-Bryan.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" \/><span class=\"caption\">Clair Walton marries Bryan, two years before doctors told him he had been infected with HIV<\/span><span class=\"credit\"> (Image: Claire Walton)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>A charity created to support \u00advictims of an NHS scandal that left nearly 3,000 people dead was \u00admaking a profit from dying patients.<\/p>\n<p>The Macfarlane Trust was set up in 1988 by the Government to help patients with haemophilia who had been infected with HIV from contaminated blood.<\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-vip-slot\" class=\"gpt in-article gpt-no-ad-label\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/5293\/mirror.co.uk\/news\/uk-news_2__container__\">The charity handed out monthly payments and emergency grants using cash from the Department of Health.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/uk-news\/charity-profited-dying-hiv-patients-14078607\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Clair Walton marries Bryan, two years before doctors told him he had been infected with HIV (Image: Claire Walton) A charity created&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-hiv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}