New York's HIV experiment (children tested with toxic drugs)

[sariku]

This is horrible.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/this_world/4038375.stm

HIV positive children and their loved ones have few rights if they choose to battle with social work authorities in New York City.

Jacklyn Hoerger's job was to treat children with HIV at a New York children's home.

But nobody had told her that the drugs she was administering were experimental and highly toxic.

"We were told that if they were vomiting, if they lost their ability to walk, if they were having diarrhoea, if they were dying, then all of this was because of their HIV infection."

In fact it was the drugs that were making the children ill and the children had been enrolled on the secret trials without their relatives' or guardians' knowledge.

As Jacklyn would later discover, those who tried to take the children off the drugs risked losing them into care.

The BBC asked the Alliance for Human Research Protection about their view on the drug trials.

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[thecrow]

1. The Worst!

How on earth can these people be stopped?
It reeks of shades of Dr. Mengele!!!
These poor families!
I am horrified.

[bobbieinok]

2. add to the EPA paying parents to test effects of chemicals on children

and .... and .....

Abu G is 'in line with American practice'