NOTE-> references cited+available from the original document are all from VERY credible sources re: these unwilling/unknowing participants. SOME PARTS OF A DISTURBING REPORT /ARTICLE THAT CAME ACROSS THE DESK this morning to SHARE (2002) President George W. Bush signs the Best Pharmaceuticals for Children Act (BPCA), offering pharmaceutical companies six-month exclusivity in exchange for running clinical drug trials on children. This will of course increase the number of children used as human test subjects (Hammer Breslow, Lauren). (2004) In his BBC documentary Guinea Pig Kids and BBC News article of the same name, reporter Jamie Doran reveals that children involved in the New York City foster care system were unwitting human subjects in experimental AIDS drug trials from 1988 to, in his belief, present times (Doran). (2005) In response to the BBC documentary and article Guinea Pig Kids, the New York City Administration of Childrens Services (ACS) sends out an Apr. 22 press release admitting that foster care children were used in experimental AIDS drug trials, but says that the last trial took place in 2001 and thus the trials are not continuing, as BBC reporter Jamie Doran claims. The ACS gives the extent and statistics of the experimental drug trials, based on its own records, and contracts the Vera Institute of Justice to conduct an independent review of ACS policy and practice regarding the enrollment of HIV-positive children in foster care in clinical drug trials during the late 1980s and 1990s (New York City ACS). In exchange for receiving $2 million from the American Chemical Society, the EPA proposes the Childrens Health Environmental Exposure Research Study (CHEERS) to learn how children ranging from infancy to three years old ingest, inhale and absorb chemicals by exposing children from a poor, predominantly black area of Duval County, Fla., to these toxins. Due to pressure from activist groups, negative media coverage and two Democratic senators, the EPA eventually decides to drop the study on Apr. 8, 2005 (Organic Consumers Association). Bloomberg releases a series of reports suggesting that SFBC, the largest experimental drug testing center of its time, exploits immigrant and other low-income test subjects and runs tests with limited credibility due to violations of both the FDAs and SFBCs own testing guidelines (Bloomberg). SOURCES (partial listing from original citation list): **Hammer Breslow, Lauren. The Best Pharmaceuticals for Children Act of 2002: The Rise of the Voluntary Incentive Structure and Congressional Refusal to Require Pediatric Testing. Harvard Journal of Legislation Vol. 40. **Doran, Jamie. Guinea Pig Kids. BBC News. 30 Nov. 2004.
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