It is suspected that, during the 1970s and 1980s, a number of hemophiliacs became infected with the HIV virus after receiving tainted clotting substances made by Armour Pharmaceutical Company, Bayer Corporation and its Cutter Biological division, Baxter International and its Hyland Pharmaceutical division and Alpha Therapeutic Corporation.[1] Estimates range from 6,000 to 10,000 hemophiliacs in the United States becoming infected with H.I.V.[1][2]

It is believed that three of these companies (Alpha, Baxter and Cutter) recruited and paid donors from high risk populations, including prisoners, intravenous drug users, and blood centers with predominantly homosexual donors, to obtain blood plasma used for the production of Factor VIII and Factor IX.[3] It is alleged that these companies failed to follow United States federal law that mandates the exclusion of donors with a history of viral hepatitis.[3] The medicine was made using pools of plasma from 10,000 or more donors, and since the AIDS virus couldn't be screened out, the plasma carried a high risk of passing along the disease.[4]

Factor VIII essentially provides the missing ingredient without which hemophiliacs' blood cannot clot. By injecting themselves with it, hemophiliacs can stop bleeding or prevent bleeds from starting; some use it as many as three times a week.[4]

However, after stopping sales of the drugs in the United States in 1984, Bayer was known to have continued to sell the contaminated products overseas for at least another year.

(read more if you want to comment...)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contaminated_haemophilia_blood_products

Bayer Documents: AIDS Tainted Blood Killed Thousands of Hemophiliacs
NYT article
http://www.ahrp.org/infomail/0503/22.php

video (scaraburough)-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XS3mhjt7TrY

Could these companies have known about AIDS during the 70's??

It this article is true, it sure added to the early spread of the virus.
Common sense would say that these people had sex partners.

Could these companies have known about AIDS during the 70's??

Mid 1970's - 1980 History (http://www.avert.org/his81_86.htm)
We do not know how many people developed AIDS in the 1970s, or indeed in the years before. Neither do we know, and we probably never will know, where the AIDS virus HIV originated (see our origins page (http://www.avert.org/origins.htm) for some theories). But what we do know is:
"The dominant feature of this first period was silence, for the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) was unknown and transmission was not accompanied by signs or symptoms salient enough to be noticed. While rare, sporadic case reports of AIDS and sero-archaeological studies have documented human infections with HIV prior to 1970, available data suggest that the current pandemic started in the mid- to late 1970s. By 1980, HIV had spread to at least five continents (North America, South America, Europe, Africa and Australia). During this period of silence, spread was unchecked by awareness or any preventive action and approximately 100,000-300,000 persons may have been infected."

Could these companies have known about AIDS during the 70's?? I wrote this:
(read more if you want to comment...) for a reason you worthless POS. Go there and read up before you attempt anything resembling an intelligent response.

I wrote this:
for a reason you worthless POS. Go there and read up before you attempt anything resembling an intelligent response.Is that directed at me? If it is, what did I say?

What in the hell are you talking about, rilla?

Sorry for being a little zealous. I just get very pissed at mass murder for money. And when people don't bother to read the links provided.

If you had read the link you would have known that: This blood was distributed overseas in the 80's after they knew it was contaminated and hazardous.

They didn't know in the 70's (again as stated in the wiki article) It was the early 80's when they figured out it was blood born and was being passed in hemopheliacs drugs.

Heard last night, from the head of some U.S. aids thing, that we are coming up on a new aids epidemic that surpasses the previous one.

Heard last night, from the head of some U.S. aids thing, that we are coming up on a new aids epidemic that surpasses the previous one.
How is that possible? They are dropping by the 100's in Africa everyday. It is a catastrophe already. What is this guy predicting?