How corruption is giving babies HIV in Central Asia

sad to say we live in this world...

it still amazes me how people can be so heartless...

Another example of how lack of accountability has led to more tragedy...I do hope that these people are prosecuted to the highest degree, exposed worldwide, and punished severely for their selfish greed...still that is not enough for what they have done...

Very sad.

You know, I see Sean of the Dead as a metaphor for what 'some' people experience of the world around them as they go through personal, psychological changes with all that I see and hear on Current and in the news everywhere. It's bitter sweet for sure.

Back to trashing the trash:

mccain would have it that way here if it were left to him. In fact, if you want to know what the republican party would do to this country if left unchecked. lock at the gross incompetence and negligence in Iraq.

This gives me a sick feeling.

I say shackle them and hard labor building hospitals for the rest of their lives.

so much suffering...so sad

Remember what Jeremiah Wright said? There were a lot of things he said that were considered offensive, such as accusing the government of purposely infecting African Americans with HIV. Although, I am not saying that this is a for sure thing, doesn't this story sort of make you think it isn't all that impossible.

Plus the Tuskegee experiments make me think twice as well. People always argue these black men already had syphyllis, but if they (the government) would deny treatment for no apparent reason why would we put it past them to inject the men with the disease to begin with? They didn't treat these men to see whether blacks were affected by the disease differently than white mean (white men supposedly suffered more neurological effects, and black men cardiovascularly) There was no significance to the study and in fact the purpose was for the men to die to perform autopsies on them.

Has it ever occurred that infecting the disadvantaged with HIV would not only boost profits for the companies that make HIV treatment drugs, but would also perpetuate the need for people to get "tested" which would enable these facilities (government sponsored hospitals and mobile units) to be used by those very drug companies to continue to test their drugs? I know it is far fetched and just a conspiracy theory but I have learned to trust no one when it comes to corrupt pharmaceutical corps & governments. I don't put anything past them.

There have been stories in the past about how HIV tests were actually no good because of tainted plastic or were thought to give "false negatives" due to the fact they were tainted. There have also been stories like the one above in Africa and other disadvantaged countries in Latin America, and all use the same excuse, tainted blood with no known source, and conveniently blame intravenous drug users and prostitutes who recieve treatment at the same hospitals or clinics the incidents occurred.

There have also been stories where drug companies purposely test drugs that are not considered safe on disadvantaged people and also use ineffective drugs to be able to recoup their costs from the government through the use of funds that are given to these countries in the form of donated aid from people who were trying to help those people. They (drug companies) blame this on the fact that the patents from effective drugs given for free sometimes by well meaning pharmaceutical corporations (as if the combination of terms actually exists) are then copied by third world country pharmaceutical companies who make "watered down" versions and sell them on the cheap and in turn end up making the ailments resistant to drugs that do work by creating new strains of the diseases. It's a convenient way to say that the third world countries are responsible for this and not the drug companies. Which I don't necessarily buy because why would pharmaceutical corps continue to send these drugs (most times supposedly for free) to these countries if they know they aren't really being used to help people (just in the hopes someday they will be used to help the people?, doubtful)

This world is all about profits and not caring about the poor because they are seen as unimportant wastes of space. Of course they (corporations) would never fully get rid of the poor because they do still serve a purpose in their profits, namely guinea pigs and a way to still get paid for the drugs they put out that have no medicinal benefit or use.

Even the drugs in the US that are supposedly effective and in regular use don't ever heal an ailment but just subdue the effects so you can continue to use and buy the drug. FDA regulations are more lax than ever and the more effective homeopathic and natural remedies are found to be, the more the FDA says we shouldn't rely on those natural remedies for treatment, but to instead use FDA approved drugs.

The third world countries around the globe have taken their cue from America on what treatments are effective and which drugs to use on the ailments. I believe they (third world countries) should stick to their original methods of apothecary and homepathic remedies and stop relying on medications based on alterations by scientists to try and boost their (treatments) effectiveness but in effect actually making them (treatments) a temporary solution rather than an effective solution.

I am not crazy for thinking it is possible, moreso aware of how greedy people can have no heart when it comes to the profits they worship.

http://www.indusbusinessjournal.com/ME2/dirmod.asp?sid=...

http://www.actupny.org/reports/hudson.html

http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?art...

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/84082.php

http://www.virusmyth.com/aids/hiv/chjroulette.htm

http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/emma_holister/2004/09/1...

Those are just some articles, but I feel that even these articles don't address the possibility that maybe we shouldn't rely so much on strict science anymore when scientists continue to neglect the benefits of naturally occurring treatments and insist they can "create" more effective drugs to treat the diseases. Almost all the studies that refute the benefits of homeopathic or naturally occurring treatments found in nature are all sponsored and done by major pharmaceutical corps.

I am afraid that these scientists are unknowingly (or maybe knowingly) creating treatments that are not effective and instead perpetuate the spread of these various ailments. We need to start looking to nature again for our needs, we've mistakenly put all our faith in men and men have time and time again proven to put profit before people.

I may sound like a conspiracy theorist and crazy. Even I think that at times when I read what I type, but I just can't say it's not possible in the world we now live in and it scares me.

Poor little babies. How sad that people don't respect one another enough to even be clean so things like this don't happen. I'm the laziest person in the world but I wash off the kitchen counters a before I cook a meal. I want to be sure what I prepare is clean. Simple thing to do.

Horrific.

American Indian prophecies warn us to "Watch how people treat the children."

TouchArt don't scare me even more... My boyfriend is always talking about the 2012 prophecy.

We're "potheads" so anything is possible as far as we're concerned.

But even being "potheads", we normally base our "conspiracy theories" and our superstition beliefs on facts and the social issues facing us. So, the mere possibility is frightening.

horrible news. I hope the doctors are harshly punished for ruining people's lives. In short - firing squad.

Personally, the doctors could not receive a harsh enough punishment for what they have done. They're up there with Nazi criminals in my book for this.
What should happen is that every penny that they have should be thrown into the rebuilding of hospitals in the areas they impacted - every article of clothing, every car, every item they bought with that money should be auctioned off with the entire proceeds going to the mothers and children who were affected (screw the fathers that left, sorry but no way) and their care. These doctors should then have to work in the hospitals for a minimum wage for the rest of their lives, with oversight to ensure they're providing the care they should have to begin with.
If my doctor knowingly put my children at risk, he would need to watch his back for the rest of his life...

Alicynx, do you give your children every medication prescribed by your doctor without doing extensive research on that medication?

Because if you don't, your doctor may already be putting your child at risk, maybe not for HIV, but any of the number of side effect prescribed drugs can have.

I'm just saying, because my sister had a very bad experience with my nephew. Her doctor prescribed a medication normally given to adults because he "saw no other recourse to treat the symptons".

Needless to say, it had horrible side effects on my nephew, including him nearly dying (thank god none were permanent). Not only did we find out that the doctor had done this before, but because my sister was dependant on medicaid for her child at the time, she had essentially signed over her rights to even threaten the doctor with a lawsuit because he was protected by the government. It was treated as an oversight by the pharmacy and they simply payed the medical bills associated with the mistake and allowed her to choose the doctor she wanted (which normally isn't the case for children with medicaid).

Human beings can be so disgusting, it's tragic.

My heart aches for those children and their parents. What were the doctors thinking?

The doctors do deserve punishment, but they too are victims in an inadequate health care system. Punishing the doctors would only be treating one symptom of a much larger cause, which would discourage but in no way prevent further incidents like this.

i'm feeling very very sad for the children and parents. Why those Doctors are so heartless? How can they be so cruel??? I really hope they get punished...they did this becoz of money....so make them work without wages..they shouldn't have visitors...no friends...they should feel the pain of those affected children n parents.

So sad. The money's in the MEDICINE... NOT the cure.

Yeah, tell me big business isn't the problem...

they have a destroyed medical system there that needs serious help