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He went on to
describe some of the drugs - supplied by major drug manufacturers
including Glaxo SmithKline - as "lethal".
When approached by the BBC, Glaxo SmithKline said such trials must
have stringent standards and be conducted strictly in accordance with
local regulations.
Battle
of wills
At Incarnation, if a child refused to
take the medicines offered, he or she was force-fed through a peg-tube
inserted into the stomach.
Critics of the trials say children should have been volunteered to
test drugs by their parents.
Garfield
(left), pictured with his grandmother, is enrolled in HIV drug trials
Regina Mousa's grandson
(left) is HIV positive and in a foster home
When Jacklyn Hoerger later fostered two children from the home
where she used to work with a view to adopting them, she discovered just
how powerful the ACS was.
"It was a Saturday morning and
they had come a few times unannounced," she said. "So when I
opened the door I invited them in and they said that this wasn't a happy
visit. At that point they told me that they were taking the children
away. I was in shock."
Jacklyn, a trained paediatric nurse, had taken the fatal step of
taking the children off the drugs, which had resulted in an immediate
boost to their health and happiness.
As a result she was branded a child
abuser in court. She has not been allowed to see the children since.
In the film Guinea Pig Kids, we follow
Jacklyn's story and that of other parents or guardians who fear for the
lives of their loved ones.
We talk to a child who spent years on drugs programmes which made
them and their friends ill, and we discover that Incarnation is not an
isolated case. The experiments continue to be carried out on the poor
children of
New York City
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Guinea Pig Kids was broadcast on Tuesday,
30 November, 2004, at 1930 GMT on BBC Two (UK).
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