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First published (The House that AIDS Built) on
http://www.dissidentaction.com THEN The New York Post the story has now
made it to the highly respected British daily 'The Observer'.

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/inter...185305,00.html

UK firm tried HIV drug on orphans

GlaxoSmithKline embroiled in scandal in which babies and children were
allegedly used as 'laboratory animals'

Antony Barnett in New York
Sunday April 4, 2004
The Observer

Orphans and babies as young as three months old have been used as guinea
pigs in potentially dangerous medical experiments sponsored by
pharmaceutical companies, an Observer investigation has revealed.

British drug giant GlaxoSmithKline is embroiled in the scandal. The firm
sponsored experiments on the children from Incarnation Children's Centre,
a New York care home that specialises in treating HIV sufferers and is run
by Catholic charities.

The children had either been infected with HIV or born to HIV-positive
mothers. Their parents were dead, untraceable or deemed unfit to look
after them.

According to documents obtained by The Observer, Glaxo has sponsored at
least four medical trials since 1995 using Hispanic and black children at
Incarnation. The documents give details of all clinical trials in the US
and reveal the experiments sponsored by Glaxo were designed to test the
'safety and tolerance' of Aids medications, some of which have potentially
dangerous side effects. Glaxo manufactures a number of drugs designed to
treat HIV, including AZT.

Normally trials on children would require parental consent but, as the
infants are in care, New York's authorities hold that role.

The city health department has launched an investigation into claims that
more than 100 children at Incarnation were used in 36 experiments - at
least four co-sponsored by Glaxo. Some of these trials were designed to
test the 'toxicity' of Aids medications. One involved giving children as
young as four a high-dosage cocktail of seven drugs at one time. Another
looked at the reaction in six-month-old babies to a double dose of measles
vaccine.

Most experiments were funded by federal agencies like the National
Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Until now Glaxo's role had
not emerged.

In 1997 an experiment co-sponsored by Glaxo used children from Incarnation
to 'obtain tolerance, safety and pharmacokinetic' data for Herpes drugs.
In a more recent experiment, the children were used to test AZT. A third
experiment sponsored by Glaxo and US drug firm Pfizer investigated the
'long-term safety' of anti-bacterial drugs on three-month-old babies.

The medical establishment has defended the trials arguing they enabled
these children to obtain state-of-the-art therapy they would otherwise not
have received for potentially fatal illnesses.

However, health campaigners argue there is a difference between providing
the latest drugs and experimentation. They claim many of the experiments
were 'phase 1 trials' - among the most risky - and that HIV tests for
babies were not a reliable indicator of actual infection and therefore
toxic drugs could have been given to healthy infants. HIV drugs are
similar to those used in chemotherapy and can have serious side-effects.

Vera Sharav, president of the Alliance for Human Research Protection, said
the children had been treated like 'laboratory animals'.

'These are some of the most vulnerable individuals in the country and
there appears to be a policy of giving drug firms access to them,' she
said. 'Throughout the history of medical research we have seen prisoners
abused, the mentally ill abused and now poor kids in a care home.'

Sharav has urged the US Food and Drug Administration to investigate and
has demanded full disclosure of all adverse effects suffered by the
children, including deaths. Brooklyn Democrat councillor Bill de Blasio is
also demanding that New York's Administration for Children's Services,
which approved the trials, reveal who gave consent and on what grounds.

Glaxo has confirmed it provided funds for some of the experiments but
denied any improper action. A spokeswoman said: 'These studies were
implemented by the US Aids Clinical Trial Group, a clinical research
network paid for by the National Institutes of Health. Glaxo's involvement
in such studies would have been to provide study drugs or funding but we
would have no interactions with the patients.

'Generally speaking, clinical research is carefully regulated in the US
and it would be the responsibility of the appropriate authorities to
ensure all subjects in a clinical trial provided appropriate, informed
consent to conform with all local laws and regulations regarding legal
authority in the case of minors.'

The Incarnation trials were run by Columbia University Medical Centre
doctors. Columbia spokeswoman Annie Bayne said there had been no clinical
trials at Incarnation since 2000 and that consent for the children was
provided by the Administration for Children's Services, which uses a panel
of doctors and lawyers to determine whether the benefits of a trial for
each child outweighs the risks. 'There are many safeguards in the system.
HIV is eventually a fatal disease, but drug therapy has lengthened life
significantly,' said Bayne.

A spokesman for Incarnation said: 'The purpose of the trials was to test
the efficacy of HIV medication ... These trials were based on scientific
evidence of their potential value in the treatment of HIV-infected
children.'

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See original (more shocking) illustrated version and NY Post version on
our web site. NOT FOR THE WEAK OF STOMACH.

Incredible and horrible. The treatment of these children is all the more
disgusting given that there is still no proof of the HIV hypothesis.

The multi-billion dollar AIDS industry has failed to isolate the supposed
HIV virus after decades of extremely well-funded research - indeed it has
failed even to produce a candidate virus particle and then to show that
that particle is able to replicate in a virus-like manner. This is a basic
first step of clinical epidemiology and is conspicuous by its absence.

We have got to deprogram ourselves of the viral hypothesis for AIDs. It's
a junk theory that has saved no-one and killed thousands. The main
beneficiaries of the bizarre HIV=AIDs viral mantra are the huge
pharmaceutical companies - Glaxo among them - who have made incredible
amounts of money from the suffering of others. They must be brought to
account.

On Thu, 08 Apr 2004 05:42:42 -0400, "agere_contra" <address@withheld>
wrote:

Hey. Do your own "n of 1" study and get infected. See what happens.
That oughta be "proof" enough, yes?

George M. Carter

"Incredible and horrible. The treatment of these children is all the more
disgusting given that there is still no proof of the HIV hypothesis."

Dear Agere Contra,

These drugs companies are not any less criminals than the Nazi's. It is
our duty that they be made to account for their crimes against humanity
and for this vile myth.


Best wishes,


Paul

The House That AIDS Built

[excerpt]

By Liam Scheff (Boston Dig feature writer)



In 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.

The 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.

In 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.

This 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.



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English: "HOUSE THAT AIDS BUILT"
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http://www.altheal.org/texts/house.htm

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French: "HOUSE THAT AIDS BUILT"
http://www.sidasante.com/critique/maison.htm

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