https://newswithviews.com/bill-clinton-and-the-deadly-arkansas-tainted-blood-scandal/
Bill Clinton was governor of Arkansas when the Canadian blood supply was contaminated in the mid-80s. He was familiar with the operations of the now defunct Health Management Associates (HMA). They were the Arkansas firm that was given a contract by Clinton’s state administration to provide medical care to prisoners.
In the process, HMA was also permitted by the state to collect prisoners’ blood and sell it elsewhere. The Governor was a friend of HMA president Leonard Dunn, a political ally, who boasted of the friendship in 1986 to Arkansas police who conducted a probe of the allegations HMA was providing poor medical care to inmates. He was appointed by Clinton to sit on the Arkansas Industrial Development Commission and served as finance chair of Clinton’s 1990 gubernatorial campaign. Later that same year, Dunn purchased the infamous Madison Guaranty Savings and Loan from Clinton’s business partner James McDougal (Whitewater).
In the early 80s, U.S. companies that fractionate blood products (separating the various components of blood plasma) had stopped buying prison blood because it was widely known that since many prisoners practiced unsafe sex or were intravenous drug users, they posed a high risk of carrying the AIDS virus.
However, HMA found a willing buyer in Continental Pharma, a Montreal blood broker, which in turn sold the plasma to Toronto based blood fractionator Connaught Laboratories. Connaught apparently did not realize the plasma had come from inmates.