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June 13, 2008

Vaccine Trials: Too Risky for U.S. Teens?

Testing potential AIDS vaccines in teens may be justifiable in countries with extremely high HIV prevalence but not in countries with comparatively lower prevalence, such as the United States, reports a panel of advisors to the Food and Drug Administration, according to Bloomberg (Bloomberg.com, 6/9).

The panel says that the trials’ risks may not outweigh their benefits in the United States. “There was agreement that AIDS trials in adolescents should take place in countries where adolescents are at higher risk for AIDS,” said the panel’s chairman, Norman Fost, a pediatrics professor at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.

According to the article, knowledge about vaccine effects on children is limited, raising uncertainty and risk. “In any disease, doctors who take care of adults have more scientific evidence to use than those taking care of children,” said Eric Kodish, chairman of the department of bioethics at the Cleveland Clinic.

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Steven O, INDIANAPOLIS, IN, 2008-06-16 11:07:14
Once again the powers that be, i.e. WHO, US, etc. want to use third world countries as guinea pigs. This same conduct using (un) "Informed Consent" possibly started the AIDS epidemic through an experimental polio vaccine called CHAT administered to Africans in the 1950's. Who knows what other Iatrogenic tragedies have or will be released upon our species "in the name of science"!!!

julianna kenny, dublin, 2008-06-14 15:04:46
In countries reported to have higher risk /incidence of - A I D S - the link to HIV is not established, the Bangui Definition of AIDS has nothing to do with HIV. This is another example of using the third world to conduct human trials that would be ethically challenged here as in the case of the New York Orphans scandal , defended by Jeanne Bergman and co. You cannot vaccinate against Poverty and it is unlikely you can vaccinate against a 'syndrome' (not a virus) of AIDS either.

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