NEVER FORGET the AIDS Drug Experiments on Foster Care Children

The late Author and researcher, Liam Scheff, posted this interview over 8 years ago on his YT channel.

At the time, he said, "....in 2003, 04, 05, I was investigating this story.
Children in an NYC orphanage (and the foster care system) used in clinical trials. The Associated Press took it national and found it going on in seven or more states."

Government-funded researchers tested AIDS drugs on hundreds of foster children over the past two decades, often without providing them a basic protection afforded in federal law and required by some states, an Associated Press review has found.The research funded by the National Institutes of Health spanned the country. It was most widespread in the 1990s as foster care agencies sought treatments for their HIV-infected children that weren't yet available in the marketplace.

The practice ensured that foster children -- mostly poor or minority -- received care from world-class researchers at government expense, slowing their rate of death and extending their lives. But it also exposed a vulnerable population to the risks of medical research and drugs that were known to have serious side effects in adults and for which the safety for children was unknown.

The research was conducted in at least seven states -- Illinois, Louisiana, Maryland, New York, North Carolina, Colorado and Texas -- and involved more than four dozen different studies. The foster children ranged from infants to late teens, according to interviews and government records.

Several studies that enlisted foster children reported patients suffered side effects such as rashes, vomiting and sharp drops in infection-fighting blood cells as they tested antiretroviral drugs to suppress AIDS or other medicines to treat secondary infections.

In one study, researchers reported a "disturbing" higher death rate among children who took higher doses of a drug. That study was unable to determine a safe and effective dosage.

Officials estimated that 5 percent to 10 percent of the 13,878 children enrolled in pediatric AIDS studies funded by NIH since the late 1980s were in foster care. More than two dozen Illinois foster children remain in studies today.

No medical records were ever made available to official investigators.

You make up your own mind.

Continued here --- A National Scandal: AIDS Drug Experiments on Foster Care Children - Assoc Press --- https://www.docdroid.net/MKh3Vtv/a-national-scandal-aids-drug-experiments-on-foster-care-children-pdf

....and archived online here: https://web.archive.org/web/20120315194521/https://ahrp.org/infomail/05/05/04.php