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

We request that you immediately order the researchers in these studies to
provide effective prophylaxis to all subjects in these studies and that you pressure the
foreign governments who are also funding these studies to do likewise. We also
request that you immediately ask the HHS Office of the Inspector General to launch
an investigation into how these U.S.-funded studies received ethical approval and into
possible violations of federal law. We are confident that you would not wish the
reputation of your department to be stained with the blood of foreign infants.
Sincerely,

Peter Lurie, MD, MPH
Research Associate
Public Citizen's Health Research Group
Wilbert Jordan, MD, MPH.
Director, Oasis Clinic and Aids Program
King-Drew Medical Center, Los Angeles
Chairman, Black Los Angeles
AIDS Consortium
Michael A Grodin, MD, FAAP
Professor of Medical Ethics
Health Law Department
Boston University
School of Public Health
Co-founder Global Lawyers and
Physicians: Working Together
for Human Rights

Sidney M. 4 fe, MD
Director
Public Citizen's Health Research Group
George J. Annas, JD, MPH
Professor of Health Law
Health Law Department
Boston University
School of Public Health
Co-founder Global Lawyers and
Physicians: Working Together
for Human Rights
George Silver, MD
Emeritus Professor of Medicine
Yale University
School of Medicine

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