Experimental AIDS drugs and human guniea pigs in NYC

[Armstead]

Someone posted this on the Unfiltered (Air America) blog. If true it's outrageous.

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

BBC

New York's HIV experiment
By Jamie Doran
Reporter/producer, Guinea Pig Kids


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 worked at the Incarnation Children's Center

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.....


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[gottaB]

1. yeah, it's true

It was in lbn a few weeks ago.

Bloody outrage.

[atreides1]

2. Here We Go Again

Eugenics rising from the ashes of Tuskegee and Dachau.

Lucky we live in such a "Christian" nation.

[Armstead]

3. kick

Amazing this is not more widely reported. If it's true it's as much of an outrage as things like Abu Grabe.