Compiled by OH ING YEEN and R. ARAVINTHANA TEENAGER who donated blood without knowing he was HIV positive tried to commit suicide after finding out it caused a woman to contract the virus. Tamil Nesan reported that the 19-year-old boy in Tamil Nadu had been donating blood since 2016. He also donated blood early this month for a relative who needed a transfusion but it wasn’t known then that he had the virus. A 23-year-old woman in a government hospital who received the blood transfusion with the tainted blood was confirmed to have been infected. He said he was unaware of his condition and would not have donated blood if he had known.

Source: The Star December 31, 2018 00:11 UTC