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Dr. Ram Yogev, director o f the pediatric HIV/AIDS program at
Children's Memorial Hospital in Chicago, examines a former
foster child who is now adopted. (AP photo)
AIDS DrugsTested on Foster Kids
Care exposes vulnerable children
(A P ) - T o gain access to hun
dreds o f H IV -infected foster chil
dren, federally funded researchers
prom ised in w riting to provide an
independent advocate to safeguard
the k id s’ w ell-being as they tested
potent A ID S drugs. But m ost o f the
tim e, that special protection never
m aterialized, an A ssociated Press
review has found.
T he research funded by the N a
tional Institutes o f H ealth spanned
the country. It was most widespread
in the 1990s as foster care agencies
sought treatm ents for their HIV-
infected children that w eren’t yet
available in the m arketplace.
T he practice ensured that foster
children - mostly poor or m inority -
received care from w orld-class re
searchers at governm ent expense,
slow ing their rate o f death and ex
tending their lives. But it also ex
posed a vulnerable population to
the risks o f medical research and
drugs that were know n to have
serious side effects in adults and
for w hich the safety for children
was unknown.
The research was conducted in
at least seven states - Illinois, L o u i
siana, M aryland, N ew Y ork, North
Carolina, C olorado and Texas - and
involved m ore than four dozen dif
ferent studies. T he foster children
ranged from infants to late teens,
according to interview s and gov
ernm ent records.
Several studies that enlisted fo s
ter children reported that patients
suffered side effects such as rashes,
vom iting and sharp drops in infec
tion-fighting blood cells, and one
rep o rted a “d istu rb in g ” h ig h e r
death rate am ong children w ho took
higher doses o f a drug, records
show .
Some fosterchildren died during
studies, but state or city agencies
said they could find no records that
any deaths w ere directly caused by
experim ental treatm ents.
Those w ho m ade the decisions
say the research gave foster kids
access to drugs they o th erw ise
couldn’t get. A nd they say they
protected the ch ild ren ’s interest by
carefully explaining risks and ben
efits to state guardians, foster par
ents and the children them selves.
Police Shooting Tragedy Recalled
Kendra James, the unarmed African American woman killed by police while trying to flee a traffic stop, was remembered
Thursday. Among the group marking the two-year anniversary o f the tragedy on the North Skidmore 1-5 overpass was Perlia Bell
(from left), a mother whose daughter was killed by gun violence; community activist Vesia Loving and Huey Martin. The local
activism following James' death brought about some policy changes in the Portland Police Bureau.
Insurgents Increase Fight on U.S. Forces
Violent attacks
spiral in Iraq
(A P) - U.S. forces hunting down
follow ers o f Iraq’s m ost w anted
terrorist pushed into a law less
region near the Syrian border
T u esd ay afte r m eetin g u n e x
pected resistance from insurgents
hidden in rem ote desert outposts
along the southern banks o f the
Euphrates River.
M arines fought house-to-house
M onday against dozens o f well-
arm ed insurgents firing at them from
b a lc o n ie s , ro o fto p s an d s a n d
bagged bunkers in the border town
o f O beidi and surrounding villages,
the Los A ngeles Tim es reported.
A s m any as 100 m ilitants have
been killed since O peration M ata
dor, one o f the largest A m erican
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An injured child is rushed to a hospital-Tuesday, after a car
bomb exploded in central Baghdad, killing at least seven people
and wounding 16. (AP photo)
offensives in Iraq in six m onths,
began Saturday night in Q aim , 200
m iles w est o f Baghdad, the m ilitary
said.
At least three U.S. M arines have
been killed in the offensive, w hich
involves m ore than 1,000 M arines,
sailors and soldiers backed by h e
licopter gunships and fighter jets.
A Los A ngeles T im es reporter
em bedded w ith U.S. forces said 20
A m erican troops w ere w ounded,
but the U .S. m ilitary could not im
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m ediately confirm that.
G unm en, m eanw hile, kidnapped
the g o v ern o r o f Ira q ’s w estern
A nbar province T uesday and told
his fam ily he w ould be released
w hen U.S. forces w ithdraw from
Q aim , relatives said.
T he o ffen siv e co m es am id a
surge o f m ilitant attacks across Iraq,
often targeting security forces and
civilians.
T w o car bom bs killed seven in
Baghdad on T uesday.
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tig ato rs su sp ect a 5 0 0 -g allo n tank
cau sed the blast.
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