Dear London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine,

Under FOI I would please like you to provide the following:

An inventory list of files you hold which contain any of the following keywords in the title where the content of those files is likely to cover periods between 1976 - 1986:

"Haemophilia"
"Haemophiliac"
"Haemophiliacs"
"Factor VIII"
"BPL"
"Hepatitis"
"HIV"
"AIDS"

Where possible the inventory list should contain the full title of the file, the period covered and any internal reference number you may have for the file.

Yours faithfully,

JJ Evans

FOI, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Dear JJ Evans

Thank you for your Freedom of Information request of 7 May 2018, records from this period will be held in the archives. Under Freedom of Information legislation, this information is available by other means so therefore the School is not required to provide this. A catalogue of the holdings are available on the School's website at: https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/library.... You may be able to identify relevant records from this resource. There is information on the website about accessing these records.

Some standard sections follow on the re-use of the information which has been supplied to you, and your right to appeal if you are dissatisfied with our handling of your request.

Re-use of the information supplied to you
The copyright of any information which has been supplied to you will be owned by LSHTM unless otherwise indicated. The supply of information under the Freedom of Information Act or the Environmental Information Regulations does not give the person or organisation who receives it an automatic right to re-use the information in a way which would infringe copyright, for example, by making multiple copies, publishing and issuing copies to the public.
Brief extracts of any material which is supplied to you may be reproduced under the fair dealing provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (sections 29 and 30) for research or private study for non-commercial purposes, criticism, review or news reporting. More extensive re-use must only be carried out with prior written permission from LSHTM.
Enquiries about the re-use of material should be directed to the Archivist & Records Manager (email: [London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine request email]).

Your right to appeal
If you are dissatisfied with the handling of your Freedom of Information or Environmental Information request, you are encouraged to contact the Archivist & Records Manager (email to [London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine request email]) in the first instance, to determine if your concerns can be resolved informally. This may lead to a quicker resolution of your complaint than a formal appeal.
If you remain dissatisfied, you can ask for an internal review of LSHTM's handling of your request. Appeals should be submitted promptly, and within 12 months of the School's response to your request. If you wish to complain about a request to which we responded more than 12 months ago, you should contact the Information Commissioner (see below), as LSHTM will not process your appeal.
Appeals should be sent in writing to the Secretary at the following address. You should state as fully as possible why you think your request was not dealt with in accordance with the Freedom of Information Act or the Environmental Information Regulations, and the remedy which you are seeking from the School:

Secretary
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Keppel Street
London
WC1E 7HT
Email: [email address]

The Secretary will assign your appeal to a review committee, and will acknowledge receipt of your appeal. The chair of the review committee will respond to your appeal within 40 working days of its receipt by the Secretary. If the review committee decides that information should be released to you, the information will be provided to you as soon as is practically possible.
If you are dissatisfied with LSHTM's response to your appeal, you can apply to the Information Commissioner for a decision on whether your request has been dealt with in accordance with the requirements of the Freedom of Information Act or the Environmental Information Regulations. The Commissioner will normally require you to have gone through our internal appeal process first before he considers your appeal. If the Commissioner finds in your favour, the Commissioner can require LSHTM to release the information to you. The Commissioner can be contacted at the following address:

Information Commissioner
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF
United Kingdom

Further information about your right to appeal to the Information Commissioner is available on the Commissioner's website (http://www.ico.gov.uk/).

Please do not hesitate to contact me (email to [London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine request email]) if you have any questions relating to our response to your request.

Yours sincerely

Victoria Cranna
Archivist & Records Manager
Library & Archives Service
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Keppel Street
London
WC1E 7HT UK

+44 (0)20 7927 2966

[email address]
www.lshtm.ac.uk/library/archives

Twitter: @LSHTMArchives

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