‘They call us the fatherless ones’: the trauma of families devastated by the infected blood scandal will last for generations Sally-Anne Wherry, University of Gloucestershire and Hannah Grist, University of Bristol On the day of her uncle’s funeral in 1995, Jane’s life changed forever.* That was when she found out her uncle Edward, a person with haemophilia, had been infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) from the treatment he was taking for his condition. Adding to the family’s pain, the stigma that surrounded HIV and the disease it causes, Aids – because of its association with homosexuality and drug addiction – meant they kept the cause of Edward’s death to themselves.…