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Reverend Bill Crews is accustomed to bad news. The Uniting Church minister, 81, has devoted his life to campaigning for worthy but unglamorous causes that pay little in the way of political dividends, including homelessness, youth disadvantage and humanitarian aid.

But Crews says nothing could have prepared him for the response when his wife Gillian Armstrong-Crews contracted hepatitis C through contaminated blood products in the early 1980s.

Armstrong-Crews received a tainted blood transfusion via the Australian…

Read the full article at SMH.COM.AU