In 2004, I broke open the NIH clinical trial scandal - government researchers using New York City orphans in clinical trials with combinations of highly toxic, speculative drugs. Read the story below.
- Knowing is Beautiful and Sex Crimes- Parts one and two of “The Hidden Face of HIV” GNN 2005 - a review and analysis of what is known as "HIV Testing", in two parts.
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Independent follow-up investigation/reporting:
On HIV Tests and Testing:
On Africa:
On Drugs:
Related Material from the GNN Weblog:
Patricia Nell Warren comments on the NIH Orphans-in-drug-trials scandal in her column in Arts and Understanding Magazine:
- Asking the Questions May 2004; What does it mean when a story about possible clinical trial abuses hits the wire, but most news media ignore it?
- Banana Ethics
June 2005; Why does corruption in AIDS research continue to go unpunished?
- What Were They Thinking? August 2005; Inspired by lax oversight in the world of medicine, a new watchdog fights for ethical standards.
Bird Flu Investigation:
Debate is the Heart and Soul of a Civil Society.
- HPV Debate "The Vaccine (that doesn’t stop) the virus (that doesn’t cause cancer) " Gardisil Vaccinations for adolescent girls – Cui Bono? GNN, December 2006
- AIDS Drugs - Drugs with severe and deadly side-effects, used in New York City orphans and throughout Africa. A necessary evil, or just bad medicine?
- An AIDS Debate: Email Correspondence between Liam Scheff and a Mainstream AIDS History Researcher at Duke University (June 2006)
NY Orphans in Government Drug Trials - NY Press (Spring, 2005)
What Does AIDS Have To Do With Sex?
- At the Guerrilla News Network (see comments to articles) on Africa and Russia Summer 2006
- The British Medical Journal debates Sex and AIDS - 2003-2004
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Hiv Testing
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The following is a public service announcement:
Know your rights: You have a right to informed consent, a right to read
and review all critical literature on a medical procedure before
agreeing to undergo it.
Know your rights: You have a right to read and review all critical
literature on Hiv testing, before submitting to a test. You have a
right to choose whether or not to take a test, based on your reading of
the critical medical literature on testing. It is your legal right:
- To review all critical literature on the tests and on testing.
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To take or to not take a test.
Before you test, seek answers to the following questions:
- How are the tests constructed? How do they work? What do they measure?
- What are the specific mechanical components of the tests? Where are the parts made? Where do they come from?
- What makes a test react? What makes a reaction positive or negative?
- What is the difference between a positive and a negative reaction?
- What standards are used to interpret a reaction?
- What other factors are used to determine the meaning or interpretation of a test result?
- Do the tests measure only one thing? Do they measure what they claim to measure? Do they cross-react, and if so, with what? Why do they cross-react?
- Who are the tests used on? Where are they issued most often? What gives a test a higher versus a lower "predictive value"?
Excercise your right to informed consent, and make the decision according to a full understanding of the tests, their limitations and uses, as reviewed in twenty-five years of the medical literature.
More on testing below, and at ARAS.ab.ca/test
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