Sponsored Project
Bad Blood: A Cautionary Tale
Filmmaker: Marilyn Ness, Necessary Films
Fiscal Sponsorship Year: 2009
Film Type: Documentary
By 1987, 70% of hemophiliacs in the Unites States – 10,000 people – were infected with HIV and hepatitis from their FDA approved medication. They leave behind a legacy of suffering that reminds each of us what can happen when the “system” fails. “Bad Blood” is a cautionary tale, bringing together patients, doctors, drug manufacturers, and government regulators to recollect how the worst medical disaster of the 20th Century was allowed to occur and cautions us to remember, remain vigilant, and to demand a safer system.