[The Original Ape]

Originally posted by 12dn94dst:
Ideal08 asked me to post this:

Tuskegee Study Revisted in Africa:

Even while suspicions and rumors continue to reverberate through black America that AIDS was intentionally introduced into the black race by World Health Organization experiments in Kenya, Africa, in the early 1980's, yet another medical study on blacks surfaced in 1997. According to an article in the Wall Street Journal, the NIH and the Center for Disease Control (CDC) are sponsoring research in Africa in which pregnant black women infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, are treated with placebos, instead of actual medicine.

Researchers claim it is too expensive to give pregnant African mothers "real medicine," and have not used some of the drugs proven effective against the disease. Although such an experimental medical study would now be unethical in the US, the researchers felt it was justified in Africa because: 1) African women gave their informal consent; 2) the research information may prove beneficial; 3) since the women would not be about to afford medical intervention anyway, they are no worse off receiving the "pretend" medicine; and 4) such studies are necessary to find affordable treatments for use in poor Third World countries. Government officials professed not to see the similarities between this study and the "imfamous Tuskegee Syphilis Study."

DAM! IF THAT AIN'T SOME UGLY SHIT!!! It use to take something like this to pull us together; it's a shame it don't work today.

Good post!