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Royal Commission of Inquiry on the Blood System in Canada

Index Royal Commission of Inquiry on the Blood System in Canada

The Royal Commission of Inquiry on the Blood System in Canada, more commonly referred to as the Krever Commission or Krever Inquiry, was a Royal commission headed by Mr Justice Horace Krever established by the Canadian Government in October 1993. [1]

17 relations: Blood, Blood product, Canadian Blood Services, Canadian Red Cross, Contaminated haemophilia blood products, Factor 8: The Arkansas Prison Blood Scandal, Government, Héma-Québec, Health Management Associates (Arkansas company), Hepatitis C, HIV, House of Commons of Canada, Non-governmental organization, Politics of Canada, Royal Commission, Sanofi Pasteur, University of Toronto.

Blood

Blood is a body fluid in humans and other animals that delivers necessary substances such as nutrients and oxygen to the cells and transports metabolic waste products away from those same cells.

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Blood product

A blood product is any therapeutic substance prepared from human blood.

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Canadian Blood Services

Canadian Blood Services is a national, nonprofit charitable organization that manages the blood supply in all provinces and territories of Canada, outside Quebec, and oversees the OneMatch Stem Cell and Marrow Network (formerly Unrelated Bone Marrow Donor Registry) and is taking steps to increase transplant opportunities for patients by collecting and storing umbilical cord blood stem cells from Canadian donors.

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Canadian Red Cross

The Canadian Red Cross Society is a Canadian humanitarian charitable organization, and one of 190 national Red Cross and Red Crescent societies.

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Contaminated haemophilia blood products

Contaminated haemophilia blood products were a serious public health problem in the late 1970s up to 1985.

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Factor 8: The Arkansas Prison Blood Scandal

Factor 8: The Arkansas Prison Blood Scandal is a feature-length documentary by Arkansas filmmaker and investigative journalist Kelly Duda.

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Government

A government is the system or group of people governing an organized community, often a state.

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Héma-Québec

Héma-Québec is a non-profit organization that manages the blood supply for the Canadian province of Quebec.

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Health Management Associates (Arkansas company)

Health Management Associates is a defunct Arkansas-based company involved in a blood-management scandal during the 1980s.

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Hepatitis C

Hepatitis C is an infectious disease caused by the hepatitis C virus (HCV) that primarily affects the liver.

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HIV

The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a lentivirus (a subgroup of retrovirus) that causes HIV infection and over time acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS).

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House of Commons of Canada

The House of Commons of Canada (Chambre des communes du Canada) is a component of the Parliament of Canada, along with the Sovereign (represented by the Governor General) and the Senate.

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Non-governmental organization

Non-governmental organizations, nongovernmental organizations, or nongovernment organizations, commonly referred to as NGOs, are usually non-profit and sometimes international organizations independent of governments and international governmental organizations (though often funded by governments) that are active in humanitarian, educational, health care, public policy, social, human rights, environmental, and other areas to effect changes according to their objectives.

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Politics of Canada

The politics of Canada function within a framework of parliamentary democracy and a federal system of parliamentary government with strong democratic traditions.

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Royal Commission

A Royal Commission is a major ad-hoc formal public inquiry into a defined issue in some monarchies.

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Sanofi Pasteur

Sanofi Pasteur is the vaccines division of the multinational pharmaceutical company Sanofi.

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University of Toronto

The University of Toronto (U of T, UToronto, or Toronto) is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on the grounds that surround Queen's Park.

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Krever Commission, Krever Inquiry, Krever commission.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Commission_of_Inquiry_on_the_Blood_System_in_Canada

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