[news] US uses Africans and US orphans as guinea pigs for AIDS drugs testing

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In the first story (posted by Yang), South Africa's ruling party has accused top U.S. officials of "conspir[ing]" with a German drug firm and treating Africans like guinea pigs amid questions over testing of a key HIV/AIDS drug before a U.S.-backed roll-out of the treatment across the continent. In the second story (posted by Fern), mostly black or hispanic orphans in NYC were treated with experimental AIDS drugs without their knowledge or the knowledge of their caregivers.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/19/74313/756