Leonor Beleza

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Maria Leonor Couceiro Pizarro Beleza de Mendonça Tavares, is a Portuguese politician, member of the Social Democratic Party. She served twice as Minister of Health in the Portuguese government. She is presently president of the Champalimaud Foundation.

In 2001, a Portugal court indicted Beleza propagating a contagious disease during her time in as Health Minister during the 1980s.[1] More than 100 Portuguese haemophiliacs had become infected with the AIDS virus after receiving transfusions of contaminated plasma that had been imported and distributed by the public health service, part of the larger worldwide contaminated haemophilia blood products scandal.[1]

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  1. ^ a b "Aids scandals around the world", BBC News, 2001-08-09. Retrieved on 2006-09-20. 
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