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The Macfarlane Trust (named after Professor Gwyn Macfarlane, founder of the Oxford Haemophilia Centre) was set up to administer funds made available by the government for people with haemophilia infected with HIV through treatment with blood products. The aims of the Trust are to provide help for:
anyone suffering from haemophilia who, as a rseult of receiving infected blood products in the United Kingdom, is suffering from AIDS or HIV, and who is in need of assistance;
the needy spouses, parents, children and other dependants of such persons;
the needy spouses, parents, children or other dependants of such persons who have died.
The Trust is governed by twelve trustees, four appointed by the Haemophilia Society, four appointed by the Secretary of State for Health and four appointed by the Board.
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