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

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The health experts including Public Citizen, Wilbert Jordan, M.D., MPH, Chairman of the Black Los Angeles AIDS
Consortium, Michael Grodin, M.D. and George Annas, J.D., MPH of Boston University's Health Law Department
and George Silver, M.D. of Yale School of Medicine have appealed to Secretary of Health and Human Services
Donna Shalala to order the researchers to provide the women in the experiments with AZT immediately and save
the infants' lives. "The research violates at least four of the ten principles of the Nuremberg Code," said the letter.
They also stated that the experiments may violate the Department's regulations on human research and demanded
an investigation by the Department's Office of the Inspector General.
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