NHS England is funding a new treatment for patients with severe haemophilia A.
Christopher Stephens has haemophilia A - his body lacks a protein that makes blood clot. A simple graze can mean the two-year-old bleeds uncontrollably.
His mother, Christy, 22, of Surrey, says:"Without treatment, there's the possibility that he could have multiple bleeds every week, every day. "He's not scared of things or worried. To him, he's a normal child. We try as much as possible to treat him like a normal child. But a couple of weeks ago, he was in hospital because he had a port infection[, where the tube enters his chest].
People with less severe forms of the condition have been able to get Hemlibra on the NHS in England, Scotland and Wales since 2018.
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