A 2004 BBC documentary 'exposed how the city of New York forced "HIV" positive children under its supervision to be used as human guinea pigs in tests for experimental Antiretroviral drug trials. All of the children in the program were under the legal guidance of the city's child welfare department, the Administration for Children's Services.'
Guinea Pig Kids: ARV-Babies in New York City
This article summarises the contents of the documentary: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/this_world/4038375.stm
..Central to this story is the city's child welfare department, the Administration for Children's Services (ACS). The ACS, as it is known, was granted far-reaching powers in the 1990s by then-Republican Mayor Rudi Giuliani, after a particularly horrific child killing...
On wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarnation_Children%27s_Center
The ICC is a non-profit corporation affiliated with the Archdiocese of New York and Columbia University.... In 2005, the Center was the focus of "Guinea Pig Kids", a BBC documentary alleging ethical violations in these clinical trials.[1] The allegations prompted an investigation by the Vera Project, which concluded that no children had died as a result of the trials, but that the Center had kept poor records and sometimes failed to follow its own enrollment policies.
However this article points out issues with the Vera report: http://archive.is/3lRyc
Subsequent independent investigations — by the Associated Press, by the federal Office of Human Research Protections; and by the Vera Institute of Justice — confirmed that ethical standards and federal regulations had been violated. The investigations confirmed that most children did not have an the protection of an independent advocate to give or refuse consent to experimental interventions. ….The Associated Press reported that the scope of these experiments was much wider; extending beyond New York to “at least seven states.” Among them: Illinois, Louisiana, Maryland, New York, North Carolina, Colorado and Texas. AP reported that more than four dozen different studies were involved. The foster children ranged from infants to late teens, according to interviews and government records.
..In 2006, OHRP confirmed the allegations by the Alliance for Human Research Protection; concluding that Columbia University Presbyterian Medical Center in New York, failed to obtain proper consent from an independent advocate, failed to ensure “equitable” selection and and failed to ensure safeguards for the foster children who “are likely to be vulnerable to coercion or undue influence.” ..“OHRP issued determination letters to 19 institutions across the country for violations related to the enrollment of foster children in the HIV/AIDS clinical trials originally cited in the AHRP letter. The 19 institutions included the New York City medical centers Bronx-Lebanon and Bellevue Hospital Centers. The SUNY Health Science Center at Stony Brook had also received a determination letter in February 2006 regarding two of the clinical trials cited. … Links to the 19 letters
...The authors of the report “concluded” — on the basis of (admittedly) incomplete, therefore unreliable records that the deaths were “not a direct result of the medications.” However the validity of that conclusion is highly questionable. The Vera Institute did not even have access to minutes from medical center research review boards (IRBs) where the trials were conducted.
In the UK, the Guardian newspaper highlighted the involvement of GlaxoSmithKline in the case: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/apr/04/usa.highereducation
Apparently the Incarnation Children's Center was the brainchildchild of Dr. Stephen W. Nicholas : https://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/17/nyregion/belated-charge-ignites-furor-over-aids-drug-trial.html
Looking for more info on the doctor took me to the website of the Kenyan charity Nyumbani: http://www.nyumbani.org/meet-stephen-nicholas-dean/
Back in April, we wrote about the visit of Stephen and his colleague Dean Christian Stohler to Nyumbani’s programs in Kenya. The pair was in Kenya for the East Africa Oral Health Summit, which brought together over 100 leaders in oral health. We covered their visit and the summit in our previous post, but during our research we also learned that Dean Nicholas had been a follower of Nyumbani for many years and even knew our founder, Father D’Agostino.
..In its early days, Father D’Agostino visited Incarnation with a mutual friend of Nicholas, David Pincus. Nicholas remembers Father D’Ag showing up on the ICC’s doorstep one day, eager to learn more about New York’s first home for pediatric AIDS patients. Not long after his visit to ICC and introduction to Nicholas, Father D’Ag was in Kenya founding Nyumbani, a home reminiscent of the children’s home in Harlem.
Uh huh.. we know about Nyumbani on this forum:
Newly Chosen UK Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt Potential POI?: Worked with Orphan Rapist / BA Pilot Simon Wood at Nyumbani; Was Funded by Groucho Club Chairman; Led Jimmy Savile Investigations
.. UK Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt has a lot of coincidental connections to pedophilia. ...Pedophile British Airways Pilot Simon Wood...Pilot Abused His Position at British Airways to Molest Hundreds of Girls at African Orphanages While Claiming He Was Doing Charity Work ..Prosecution Service ruled there was insufficient evidence to charge him. He was allowed to keep his job at BA and, in an indictment of the vetting system, continued his charity work with children.
..Politician Jeremy Hunt founded the company Hotcourses in the 1990’s, which currently shares a Board of Trustees with the Nyumbani orphanage in Nairobi, which he is a member of. Nyumbani appointed previously arrested for a child sexual offense BA pilot Simon Wood to its UK board of directors in 2003.
.The founder of Nyumbani, an Air Force urology surgeon, Georgetown University psychiatrist, and Jesuit priest named Angelo D'Agostino, is pictured here in the Clinton Oval Office. It should be noted that D'Agostino was close to the late Senators Jesse Helms and Patrick Leahy, with Leahy calling D'Agostino "a living saint," because Cathy O'Brien alleges Patrick Leahy raped her daughter many times, and otherwise tortured her, Cathy, in numerous incidents.
President of Nyumbani USA is Charles DeSantis http://www.nyumbani.org/nyumbani-usa/
You remember him.. Bill Clinton babysits his adopted children: https://voat.co/v/pizzagate/3452995
More Voat posts here re DeSantis :
James Alefantis friends taking children from other countries - Charles DeSantis (works for UN Refugee Agency)
More Comet Ping Pong Connections - United Nations Charles DeSantis friends with NSA SPY AGENCY worker - Booz Allen Hamilton(Snowden) + The Washington Ballet
And we know that the Archdiocese of NY is being investigated for their pedophile priests, right? I'll stop there for now...
Btw, Epstein has connections with Columbia University too.
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Scientists from Oxford University 'stole the blood' of African orphans and brought it back to Britain to carry out 'unlawful' research into Aids.
This sensational claim is made by a leading Kenyan scientist whose lawyers will begin legal action this week against Oxford and one of its top researchers, Dr Sarah Rowland-Jones. He alleges her team stole blood he collected from HIV-infected orphans and used his data to publish their own research.
The row centres on an orphanage on the outskirts of the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, which some scientists hope holds the key to a future cure for Aids.
At the Nyumbani children's home, HIV-infected children rescued from the city's slums have survived for more than 10 years without medication. Their natural immunity has intrigued scientists around the world. Researchers believe the orphans' blood offers vital genetic clues that could lead to the holy grail of Aids research: an effective vaccine.
One case of particular interest to the scientists involves twin brothers. While one brother died after his HIV infection turned into Aids, the other is still alive and is now a healthy 21-year-old. Genetic data taken from the brothers is a crucial part of the race for a vaccine.
Dr Moses Otsyula, head of virology at Kenya's Institute of Primate Research, set up a diagnostic laboratory at the orphanage in 1997 to monitor the infected children. Over four years he collected 70 blood samples he believed could provide vital data. More than 70 per cent of children with HIV in Africa die before they are three, but several of the orphans at the Nyumbani were already in their teens.
Otsyula claims that while he was on a trip to Harvard University in 2001 to discuss possible US collaboration with his work, the Oxford researchers stole his blood samples from a freezer, removed crucial data from his computer and illegally brought it back to Oxford without permission. The Oxford team later published two research papers using information taken from these blood samples.
Otsyula told The Observer: 'It was my project, my time, my samples and my ideas. They came and just stole it all. That is completely unethical. I have been trying to reach an amicable solution with Oxford for the last three years but they have ignored my protests. That is why I have instructed my lawyers to sue Oxford University and Dr Rowland-Jones.'
He claims the Oxford team had not received permission from the orphanage board to take further blood samples which he alleges amounts to them using the children as 'guinea pigs'.
Otsyula has won the backing of government officials who have launched an investigation into the research carried out at the orphanage, run by a Jesuit priest, Father Angelo D'Agostino.
'They came to Africa and thought it was the jungle, but we have rules and ethics as well,' said Dr Mohammed Abdullah, chairman of Kenya's National Council for Science and Technology, a government body which has to approve research.
'It appears these scientists saw what they wanted and took it. I have great respect for Oxford but in this case they have acted very wrongly and need to take action.'
Rowland-Jones, who works at Oxford's Institute of Molecular Medicine, has defended her team's actions while admitting they made an 'inadvertent' error. She claimed they had received D'Agostino's permission for the research.
'We were invited to Nairobi by Otsyula to collaborate with the research and were led to believe by him we had full ethical approval to conduct the research,' she said. 'That was a big mistake as it clearly wasn't the case. At all times we acted in good faith but the mechanism for getting ethical approval wasn't entirely clear cut at the time. When we realised we made an error we applied for ethical approval for our work which was given in 2002.'
Rowland-Jones admitted this written approval did not cover the past research, but said she had been given a 'verbal' assurance that it did. She admits her team brought blood back to the UK but claims its members believed they had permission to do so.
Rowland-Jones's research is funded by the British government's Medical Research Council. It said in a statement: 'As qualified doctors and dedicated medical researchers, [the Oxford team] are committed to carrying out high quality research to save lives, to the highest ethical standards. We would not be associated in any way with work that exploits people, particularly vulnerable children living with HIV infection.
'We are entirely committed to the practice of medical research to international ethical standards and to the welfare of the children in Nyum bani orphanage. We also remain committed to carrying out approved research that will benefit these children and many others like them around the world.
'We remain in admiration of the home and Father D'Agostino and his dedicated staff. Nyumbani is a beacon of quality care for HIV-infected children and has been established entirely for compassionate reasons.'
It emerged last week that Cambridge University was also caught up in a row over Aids research at the Nyumbani children's home after Kenya's Sunday Nation newspaper reported that one of its scientists was visiting the orphanage. Dr Eric Miller, of the university's department of clinical veterinary medicine, has confirmed he was at the children's home doing preliminary work on a nutritional project.
'I can categorically state that no unauthorised research has been carried out. Our proposed research has not yet started. I have been working with a number of partners in the planning phase of a research programme investigating the benefit of certain food supplements on HIV progression,' Miller said.
The row over Aids research at the Nyumbani orphanage is the latest controversy over the way HIV-infected children are used in research. Last month The Observer revealed that the drugs giant GlaxoSmithkline used orphans at a New York children's home in experiments.