1000 Foreign Infants to Die Unnecessarily in US-Funded HIV Studies: Human Experiments are Tuskegee Part Two, Says Health Groups

millions, of dollars being spent on these studies, this is a modest amount of money. In
any event, the manufacturer of AZT has in the past customarily provided the
medication for these trials free of charge.
Following World War II, the Nuremberg Code of research conduct was
adopted.27 In this 50th year since the commencement of the Nuremberg doctor trials, it
is disheartening in the extreme that, at a minimum, four of the ten principles of the
Code have been abrogated in this research. (We have not yet obtained the informed
consent forms for these studies, and so it is conceivable that additional principles of
the code have not been followed and that the studies are therefore even more
unethical than vwe state here. However, no informed consent process can make ethical
the withholding of effective prophylaxis.) The violated Nuremberg principles are:
Principle Two: 'The experiment should be such as to yield fruitful results for the
good of society, unprocurable by other methods or means of study, and not random
and unnecessary in nature."
Principle Four 'The experiment should be so conducted as to avoid all
unnecessary physical and mental suffering and injury."
Principle Five: "No experiment should be conducted where there is an a priori
reason to believe that death or disabling injury will occur except, perhaps, in those
experiments where the experimental physicians also serve as subjects."
Principle Seven: "Proper preparations should be made and adequate facilities
provided to protect the experimental subject against even remote possibilities of injury,
disability, or death."
Is it really your Department's position that these Principles apply to research
conducted in the U.S., but that researchers using U.S. taxpayers' money are free to
disregard them the moment they leave our shores?
27 Trials of war criminals before the Nuremberg Military Tribunals, op. cit.

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