More than 2,000 people in India have contracted HIV while receiving blood transfusions in the country’s hospitals over the last 17 months, officials said. India’s National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) said at least 2,234 people have been infected by contaminated blood during that timeframe—most from the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, the BBC reports. There…

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