It's hard to come by exact figures. The estimates of the number of people who've been infected will range from the tens of thousands to the hundreds of thousands. As some committee members may know, these government schemes for blood collection and sale were almost the most efficient way imaginable to massively and quickly transmit HIV through the population, with, in some cases, entire villages providing blood donations. The plasma was then removed from the donations, the remaining material pooled, and then reinjected into people in order to help prevent anemia and to make sure that people could donate more frequently. As I say, a more efficient way of spreading HIV could not be imagined.
It is precisely because of efforts to bring to light some of what has happened--and in some cases, there was apparent government official involvement, often at the local level, in those schemes--that some of the human rights defenders whom I've mentioned have been detained and harassed in the past.
It's somewhere in the tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands--