International health groups say earlier treatment can lengthen the lives of HIV sufferers.

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Unlike haemophiliacs who contracted HIV, the government has refused to give compensation to Hepatitis C sufferers.

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Labour's Baroness Gould of Potternewton focused on HIV-Aids diagnosis, before crossbencher Baroness Masham of Ilton highlighted "hard-to-reach" sufferers of tuberculosis.

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