{"article":{"id":104148,"heading":"TOTS USED AS 'GUINEA PIGS'","author":"Aletta","created":"2004-03-02 10:29:44","modified":"2005-08-15 02:51:05","last_modified":"Mon, 15 Aug 2005 09:51:05","article":"

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New York Post, FRONT PAGE

AIDS TOTS USED AS 'GUINEA PIGS'

By DOUGLAS MONTERO

February 29, 2004 -- The state Health Department has launched a probe into potentially dangerous drug research conducted on HIV-infected infants and children at a Manhattan foster-care agency, The Post has learned. Some 50 foster kids were used as \"guinea pigs\" in 13 experiments with high doses of AIDS medications at Manhattan's Incarnation Children's Center, sources said.

Most of the ICC experiments were funded by federal grants and in some cases, pharmaceutical companies. They used city foster children, who were sent to the Catholic Archdiocese-run facility by the Administration for Children's Services.

ICC was involved in 36 different experiments, according to the National Institutes of Health Web site. One study researched \"HIV Wasting Syndrome,\" which studied how a child's body changes when his medication is altered.

A handful of the experiments involved combining up to six AIDS drugs - so-called \"cocktails\" - in children as young as 3 months, and another explores the reaction of not one, but two doses of the measles vaccine in kids ages 6 to 7 months.

Other studies tested the \"safety,\" \"tolerance\" and \"toxicity\" of AIDS drugs.

\"They are torturing these kids, and it is nothing short of murder,\" said Michael Ellner, a minister and president of Health Education AIDS Liaison, an advocacy group for HIV parents.

Biochemist Dr. David Rasnick, a visiting scholar at the University of California at Berkeley and an expert in AIDS medication, was outraged because the drugs, alone or combined, have \"acute toxicity which could be fatal.\"

He said the drugs' side effects include severe liver damage, cancerous tumors, severe anemia, muscle wasting, severe and life-threatening rashes and \"buffalo hump,\" where fatty tissues accumulate behind the neck.

Housed in a former convent and run by the Archdiocese of New York's Catholic Charities, the foster-care agency described the experiments on its own Web site, which was abruptly shut down after The Post began making inquiries.

Archdiocese spokesman Joseph Zwilling said experiments at ICC were halted in 2002. He said he did not know why. Zwilling also said he did not know if any children had died.

An ACS spokeswoman said the agency hasn't approved any new experiments since 2000 because the \"risks outweighed the benefits.\" She declined to explain further. That agency is also reviewing its files on the case.

Jacqueline Hoerger was a pediatric nurse at ICC from 1989 to 1993 and said the experimentation was going on even back then. \"We were taught that any symptom we saw was HIV-related,\" said Hoerger, 43. \"The vomiting, diarrhea, wasting syndrome, the neurological side effects - they were

dying. There was death.\"

She didn't think doctors were doing anything wrong, however, until years later, when she tried to adopt two of the foster girls. When she refused to give the kids the center's high-powered AIDS cocktails for fear it was making them sicker, ACS had social workers take the children away from

her.

Advocates for children question the ethics of experimenting on foster kids - especially those too young to know what's happening to them.

\"The most vulnerable, disadvantaged children are being exploited by powerful entities and used as guinea pigs as if they were not human beings,\" said Vera Sharav from the Alliance for Human Research and Protection.

The tests were conducted by doctors from Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, which was affiliated with ICC until 2002 and reaped the financial benefits of the research.

\"Through these trials, children at the ICC outpatient clinic gained access to state-of-the-art treatments for HIV,\" said Annie Bayne, a Columbia spokeswoman.

ACS policy states it seeks parental consent before a child is enrolled in a study. If the parents cannot be found, ACS's medical and legal divisions, and its commissioner, must all approve.

The condition, however, is that the experiment \"offer each participating child a significant potential benefit, a concomitant minimal risk of injury or harm,\" ACS spokeswoman MacLean Guthrie said.

Fire Commissioner Nicholas Scoppetta, who headed ACS at the time of the experiments, refused comment.

Officials at ICC, which was established in 1989 to house and care for HIV-infected \"boarder babies\" left stranded in city hospitals, refused to talk to The Post.

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It also includes a number of photographs, including one of the skull-and-crossbones AZT label.","numcomment":7,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/2004\/03\/aztlabel.jpglhcjte.jpg","filesize":"16.7 kibibytes","article_url":"\/news\/2004\/03\/104148.php","image":{"original":"\/uploads\/2004\/03\/aztlabel.jpglhcjte.jpg","small":"\/uploads\/2004\/03\/aztlabel.jpglhcjte.jpgthumb.jpg"}},"attachments":[],"comments":[{"id":104149,"heading":"The House that AIDS Built","article":"The House That AIDS Built\r\n\r\n[excerpt]\r\n\r\nBy Liam Scheff (Boston Dig feature writer)\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nIn New York's Washington Heights is a 4-story brick building called Incarnation Children's Center (ICC). This former convent houses a revolving stable of children who've been removed from their own homes by the Agency for Child Services. These children are black, Hispanic and poor. Many of their mothers had a history of drug abuse and have died. Once taken into ICC, the children become subjects of drug trials sponsored by NIAID (National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Disease, a division of the NIH), NICHD (the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development) in conjunction with some of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies - GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer, Genentech, Chiron\/Biocine and others.\r\n\r\nThe drugs being given to the children are toxic - they're known to cause genetic mutation, organ failure, bone marrow death, bodily deformations, brain damage and fatal skin disorders. If the children refuse the drugs, they're held down and have them force fed. If the children continue to resist, they're taken to Columbia Presbyterian hospital where a surgeon puts a plastic tube through their abdominal wall into their stomachs. From then on, the drugs are injected directly into their intestines.\r\n\r\nIn 2003, two children, ages 6 and 12, had debilitating strokes due to drug toxicities. The 6-year-old went blind. They both died shortly after. Another 14-year old died recently. An 8-year-old boy had two plastic surgeries to remove large, fatty, drug-induced lumps from his neck.\r\n\r\nThis isn't science fiction. This is AIDS research. The children at ICC were born to mothers who tested HIV positive, or who themselves tested positive. However, neither parents nor children were told a crucial fact -- HIV tests are extremely inaccurate.(1,2) The HIV test cross-reacts with nearly seventy commonly-occurring conditions, giving false positive results. These conditions include common colds, herpes, hepatitis, tuberculosis, drug abuse, inoculations and most troublingly, current and prior pregnancy.(3,4,5) This is a double inaccuracy, because the factors that cause false positives in pregnant mothers can be passed to their children - who are given the same false diagnosis.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nREAD THE FULL ILLUSTRATED FEATURE AT: -\r\n\r\n============================================\r\n\r\nEnglish: "HOUSE THAT AIDS BUILT"\r\nhttp:\/\/www.aimultimedia.com\/aidsmythexposed\/arc_pages\/liam_child_article.html\r\nand\r\nhttp:\/\/www.altheal.org\/texts\/house.htm\r\n\r\n============================================\r\n\r\nFrench: "HOUSE THAT AIDS BUILT"\r\nhttp:\/\/www.sidasante.com\/critique\/maison.htm\r\n\r\n============================================\r\n","author":"Aletta","parent_id":104148,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","created":"2004-03-02 10:35:01","modified":"2005-08-15 02:51:05","fileurl":"\/usr\/local\/www-domains\/la.indymedia.org\/public\/uploads\/2004\/03\/liam_pic_1.jpgb6vcl8.jpg","image":{"original":"\/usr\/local\/www-domains\/la.indymedia.org\/public\/uploads\/2004\/03\/liam_pic_1.jpgb6vcl8.jpg"}},{"id":104178,"heading":"SHOCKING","article":"THIS IS NOTHING NEW: -\r\n\r\n \r\n"143 Sudden Deaths Did Not Stop Approval".. \r\n(143 deaths represents MORE deaths then the total of 1999 mortalities in Cororado, Oregon, Idaho, Utah, Washington, New Mexico, North\r\nand South Dakota, Oklahoma, W. Virgina, NJ, Delaware and Alaska combined) \r\n\r\nA damning and horrifying accounts of how the US Food and Drug Administration acts in anything but good faith or the public interest. A\r\nblistering seven-page expose that points a finger at AIDS activist efforts to speed up the approval process. \r\n\r\n"Once a wary watchdog, the Food and Drug Administration set out to become a 'partner' of the pharmaceutical industry. Today, the public\r\nhas more remedies, but some are proving lethal." \r\n \r\n\r\nBy DAVID WILLMAN, Times Staff Writer \r\n \r\n\r\nWASHINGTON--For most of its history, the United Food and Drug Administration approved new prescription medicines at a grudging\r\npace, \r\ndaily homage to the physician's creed, "First, do no harm." Then in the early 1990s, the demand for AIDS drugs changed the political\r\nclimate. Congress told the FDA to \r\nwork closely with pharmaceutical firms in getting new medicines to market more swiftly. President Clinton urged FDA leaders to trust\r\nindustry as "partners, not \r\nadversaries..." \r\n\r\nChoice headlines: \r\n\r\n"Drug After Drug, Warnings Ignored...danger signs present...even so, top admistrators moved ahead often leaving doctors to assume the\r\nrisks." \r\n\r\n"Warning on Label Omits Deaths...heart problems were mentioned in fine print, not in key dosage data" \r\n\r\n"143 Sudden Deaths Did Not Stop Approval...study results kept secret" \r\n\r\n"Official Foresaw Deadly Effects..remedy pulled after of death and surgeries" \r\n\r\nFind the whole article at \r\n\r\nhttp:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nation\/reports\/fda\/ \r\n ","author":"Paul King","parent_id":104148,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","created":"2004-03-03 00:13:12","modified":"2005-08-15 02:51:06","fileurl":"\/usr\/local\/www-domains\/la.indymedia.org\/public\/uploads\/2004\/03\/liam_chart1.jpg","image":{"original":"\/usr\/local\/www-domains\/la.indymedia.org\/public\/uploads\/2004\/03\/liam_chart1.jpg"}},{"id":107294,"heading":"AIDS Apologists VS AIDS Dissidents - The Truth About AIDS Denialists","article":"AIDS Apologists VS AIDS Dissidents - Truths About AIDS Denialists<\/b>

\r\n\r\nAIDS \r\napologists<\/a>  are those who know HIV leads to AIDS (proven by science, so much \r\nscientific proof) and we are defending the scientifically known fact that viral \r\npathogenesis and progression of 'HIV to AIDS'  causes  the eventual need for \r\ncombination therapies to prolong life. Mixed "AIDS Apologist" links\r\nhere<\/a> or find\r\ncomments<\/a> here \r\nfrom both sides (dissidents and the scientific community), but still about AIDS \r\nApologist activities...

\r\nAIDS dissidents<\/a><\/b> (better known as AIDS Denialists<\/a> \r\nwho are AIDS \r\ndissidence<\/a>, dissidence is anti-establishment like, against science and \r\nprogression, argumentative) deny HIV causes AIDS and claim the medications kill \r\nthe patients (AZT "over use" alone started this myth in the late 80s, but \r\nmedicine combo\/therapies are working today in the year 2000+). Basically a group \r\nof non doctors and non scientists who challenge the conventional HIV\/AIDS model \r\nor hypothesis and do not accept the proven evidence. These dissident groups seem \r\nalmost fanatical by them posting the same \r\nmessage<\/a> multiple times to a targeted list of internet websites (non \r\ndissident sites of course, clogging up the normal flow of reading material with \r\nintentions of shutting the \r\nsites down<\/a>) and insulting\/bashing anyone who may not agree.<\/i>\r\n

What are AIDS dissidents? Find out who, what, where, when and why:
 http:\/\/www.hivforum.com\/?dissident=dissident+site:aegis.com <\/a>\r\n<\/p>

What are AIDS denialists all about? See the myths exposed:
 http:\/\/www.hivforum.com\/?dissident=dissident+site:thebody.com <\/a>

Learn about how they are murdering HIV positive people:
 http:\/\/www.medchecker.com\/dissident\/aids-dissidents.htm <\/a>

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