Post by UniverseSeven on Jan 18, 2005 20:00:36 GMT -5
Advocates say NYC child agency forcing AIDS drug experiments on children
By Saeed Shabazz
Staff Writer
Updated Jan 14, 2005,
NEW YORK (FinalCall.com) - Outraged community activists, reacting to the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) documentary “Guinea Pig Kids,” demonstrated Dec. 30 in front of the Incarnation Children’s Center (ICC) located in Washington Heights. The documentary, which aired in late November, charged the New York City Administration of Children’s Services (ACS) with the “experimental” use of toxic drugs on HIV-positive children in the city’s foster care system.
In the documentary, a doctor said that the effects of HIV drugs on patients, particularly children, could be lethal. The children at the ICC who refused to take the medicines were force-fed through a peg-like tube surgically inserted into the stomach, according to a press statement issued by the December 12th Movement, a Brooklyn, N.Y.-based non-governmental organization (NGO).
The drugs being given to the children at ICC are toxic, warned Mr. Scheff. “They are known to cause genetic mutation, organ failure, bone marrow death, bodily deformations, brain damage and fatal skin disorders,” Mr. Scheff noted.
www.finalcall.com/artman/publish/article_1741.shtml
By Saeed Shabazz
Staff Writer
Updated Jan 14, 2005,
NEW YORK (FinalCall.com) - Outraged community activists, reacting to the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) documentary “Guinea Pig Kids,” demonstrated Dec. 30 in front of the Incarnation Children’s Center (ICC) located in Washington Heights. The documentary, which aired in late November, charged the New York City Administration of Children’s Services (ACS) with the “experimental” use of toxic drugs on HIV-positive children in the city’s foster care system.
In the documentary, a doctor said that the effects of HIV drugs on patients, particularly children, could be lethal. The children at the ICC who refused to take the medicines were force-fed through a peg-like tube surgically inserted into the stomach, according to a press statement issued by the December 12th Movement, a Brooklyn, N.Y.-based non-governmental organization (NGO).
The drugs being given to the children at ICC are toxic, warned Mr. Scheff. “They are known to cause genetic mutation, organ failure, bone marrow death, bodily deformations, brain damage and fatal skin disorders,” Mr. Scheff noted.
www.finalcall.com/artman/publish/article_1741.shtml