A documentary by the BBC titled “Guinea Pig Kids” has revealed chilling details on how Anthony Fauci, the controversial Director of U.S’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases cruel experiment on poor and vulnerable children during the search for a cure for AIDS led to the deaths of over 100 children.
Based on the findings of investigative journalist Liam Scheff in 2004, the gut-wrenching documentary exposed Fauci’s torturous clandestine medical experiments on HIV-infected children in the care of Incarnation Children’s Center (ICC).
Guinea Pig Kids – BBC Documentary
In the 2004 BBC documentary “Guinea Pig Kids,” HIV-positive children in New York City were used as subjects in experimental drug trials without proper consent. The pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline provided the drugs, and children were taken away from parents who refused consent. Filmmaker Jamie Doran and Vera Sharav raised ethical concerns, while the ACS defended its actions. This film highlights the need for public scrutiny and accountability to protect the rights of these children.
Most of the children were Black, Hispanic and poor, often born to drug-addicted mothers.
When some parents refused to consent to the trials, children’s services officials would promptly remove them and place them with foster families, or in children’s homes where a child’s participation would then be authorized.
When children resisted or refused their medications they were brought to Columbia Presbyterian hospital, where plastic tubes were surgically inserted into their stomachs for drug administration.
According to Sharav, at least 80 children died over the course of these clinical trials.
“Fauci just brushed all those dead babies under the rug,” Sharav said. “They were collateral damage in his career ambitions. They were throw-away children.”
A visit to ICC’s mass grave at Gate of Heaven cemetery in Hawthorne, New York, drove that point home for Celia Farber, an investigative reporter who conducted research for the film.
“I couldn’t believe my eyes,” Farber said. “It was a very large pit with an AstroTuft thrown over it, which you could actually lift up. Under it, one could see dozens of plain wooden coffins, haphazardly stacked. There may have been 100 of them. I learned there was more than one child’s body in each.”
Compliance also was an issue when it came to adhering to the Nuremberg Code or even following federal regulations related to clinical trial participation.
Instead of adhering to requirements put in place to protect foster children, New York created an institutional review board, an ethics committee composed of representatives from the same hospitals who were conducting the research to grant approvals.
In other words, approval was put in the hands of the stakeholders.
In March 2004, Sharav’s organization filed a complaint with both the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the Federal Office of human research protection.
The complaint focused on the unlawful enrollment of foster children in these trials and system wide institutional failure to protect them in accordance with federal regulations mandating an independent advocate for each child.
These kids, some as young as 3 months old, had no independent voice. The ACS, the same organization that essentially put them on a conveyor belt for clinical trials, was also their legal guardians.
“It’s a complete abdication of ‘first do no harm’ and the dignity of human beings,” said Sharav. “From a medical research perspective lab animals are expensive and these children are cheap. The government handed them over like a herd of animals.”
A 2005 subcommittee meeting hosted by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) concluded that the protected rights of foster children had been violated in some of the AIDS drug trials — but nothing changed at the ICC and children continued to die.
The VERA Institute of Justice, which was tasked with investigating the death of the children used in these experiments, was prohibited from looking at medical records and refused to accept data from Scheff’s own investigation.
The efforts of Scheff, Sharav and Farber were plunged back into darkness. Until now.
“Fauci has been leading the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) since 1984 and has never come up with a drug or vaccine,” Sharav said. “There has been no healing. He has only succeeded in terrorizing people.”
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