mountain bill wrote:
"Several studies that enlisted foster children reported that patients
suffered side effects such as rashes, vomiting and sharp drops in
infection-fighting blood cells, and one reported a "disturbing"
higher death
rate among children who took higher doses of a drug, records show."

I find it fascinating that you avoided posting the source, or a link to
it.

Too lazy, or are you, as usual, a laying twit that attempts to deceive?


http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-aids05.html

Here are a few other things the article mentions for a more balanced
view.

Notice I don't avoid showing both sides of the issue, as you twits do:

"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."

And;

"The government provided special protections for young wards in 1983.
They required researchers and their oversight boards to appoint
independent advocates for any foster child enrolled in a narrow class
of studies that involved greater than minimal risk and lacked the
promise of direct benefit. Some foster agencies required the protection
regardless of risks and benefits."

And;

"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."

And;

"Researchers typically secured permission to enroll foster children
through city or state agencies. And they frequently exempted themselves
from appointing advocates by concluding the research carried minimal
risk and the child would directly benefit because the drugs had already
been tried in adults."

And;

"Those who made the decisions say the research gave foster kids access
to drugs they otherwise couldn't get. And they say they protected the
children's interest by carefully explaining risks and benefits to state
guardians, foster parents and the children themselves."

And, here's a big "oh!" for yah;

"Illinois officials directly credit the decision to enroll HIV-positive
foster kids with bringing about a decline in deaths-- from 40 between
1989 and 1995 to only 19 since."

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