Fauci approved AIDS drugs toxic for adults to be tested on orphans, foster kids, RFK Jr says in new book

Kennedy sensationalizing again?

The early mortality rate of AIDS was 50% or better. About half of all AIDS patients infected in the 80s and early 90s died relatively quick deaths. A complaint about the already infected children used in the trials was their ethnicity comprised 64% black and 30% white. But by 1986, black and hispanic children made up 90% of all AIDS cases and black and hispanic communities were where AIDS was centered and where it spread from adult to child, often leaving the children orphans or abandoned. Because there were no drugs to help them, hundreds of children were dying at rates similar to or exceeding adult death rates.

AZT, a failed cancerfighting candidate, was approved for viral load reduction in adult AIDS patients in 1987, the year we saw the first AIDS Quilt. The govt approved AZT funding specifically for low-income patients, and AZT is still prescribed. Nevirapine, approved in ‘96 for adults and ‘98 for children, is used by pregnant women to prevent HIV transmission, especailly for childbirth, reducing transmission by 50% ; is safe for use in children 6 years and older and is also in current use. In every trial, the children were given medicines already trialed in adults to see if the treatments could also be used for children and infants. One of the drugs used was dapsone, which is described as a safe “ prophylactic agent for Pneumocystis Carinii Pneumonia (PCP),” and which treats an aggressive complication of AIDS.

As bath houses and gay clubs closed, 1988 brought us ACTUP - parent protestors took over the urban streets demanding access to trials and experimentals. Urban protest marches continuing for several years as antiretrovirals continued to be developed. In 2016, ‘the pill’, which wraps efavirenz, emtricitabine and tenofovir into a 60-cent dose, made its first public debute, an antiretroviral cocktail that increases life expectancy in a majority of patients from less than two years to well into the 70’s.

The biggest controversy is that the children had no individual advocates, one per child, to permit informed consent of an adult advocate. The Health Dept basically declared none was needed for recognized wards of the state who were already in various stages of disease and at risk of imminent death.

A minor controversy is the children in the study died, which, considering it’s AIDS, would be expected. But the number wasn’t anywhere near 50% that could be expected had nothing been done for the children (for instance, one placebo group lost 26 kids in one month - the study was ended on ethical grounds and the placebo group was given the treatment that resulted in zero deaths in the same timeframe). The Vera Justice study claimed 80 children out of hundreds across 8 states died, whereas the NYTimes investigation claimed children died as a result of disease process but not of the trialed drugs. The side effects were similar to what was seen in the adult trials.

The manufactured controversy of the race-pimps and race-profiteers like SlimeballKennedy is not that these sick children’s lives were extended or that these very special children helped stop a virus that was a miserable death sentence, and so were heros not victims, but that 95% of the children were minority and only 5% white. Relying on people being ignorant that AIDS was a minority-spread disease, minority children were most affected because of localized community spread from adults through no fault of their own, and so the most at risk of dying from AIDS and so equally if not more important to save than the adults.

I have been asked to apologize for my previous post to you: I apologize.
I have been very upset at all bad actions of coming to the fore with the CDC/NIH and his sent me over the edge. This is not what I expect from a US government agency and I have been floored at the hiding of the money and reporting links to obtain plausible deniability for the NIH leadership. I.e. fauci did not “directly” lie to congress because he the contracted an external party to conduct the research there fore where they did it was not under his per view. The paper shuffle hides the links.
This AIDS research his the same stink. For all the good that may do this taint is not going away. This type of gray research has me worried . I guess I like to protect children too much.

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