Guest guest Posted May 22, 2004 Report Share Posted May 22, 2004 Poor children in US forced to take experimental drugs for AIDS > > - > " Frank " <califpacific > <alternative_medicine_forum > > Saturday, January 31, 2004 4:11 AM > The House That AIDS Built > > > http://www.aimultimedia.com/aidsmythexposed/arc_pages/liam_child_article.htm > l > > > What follows is an extended excerpt from the complete article " The House > That AIDS Built, " by journalist Liam Scheff. > > This article deals with pharmaceutical abuse in a children's home in NYC. > This is a most controversial story - however, it's entirely based in fact > and good reporting. I hope you'll find it as compelling and shocking as I > did investigating it. > > The complete article needs a home in a printed publication. If you run or > are associated with a brave, honest journal which reaches a reasonably wide > audience and has an active, solid web-base, please contact me at > liamscheff > > The House That AIDS Built > > [excerpt] > > By Liam Scheff > > Introduction: > > In New York's Washington Heights is a 4-story brick building called > Incarnation Children's Center (ICC). This former convent houses a revolving > stable of children who've been removed from their own homes by the Agency > for Child Services. These children are black, Hispanic and poor. Many of > their mothers had a history of drug abuse and have died. Once taken into > ICC, the children become subjects of drug trials sponsored by NIAID > (National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Disease, a division of the > NIH), NICHD (the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development) > in conjunction with some of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies - > GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer, Genentech, Chiron/Biocine and others. > > The drugs being given to the children are toxic - they're known to cause > genetic mutation, organ failure, bone marrow death, bodily deformations, > brain damage and fatal skin disorders. If the children refuse the drugs, > they're held down and have them force fed. If the children continue to > resist, they're taken to Columbia Presbyterian hospital where a surgeon puts > a plastic tube through their abdominal wall into their stomachs. From then > on, the drugs are injected directly into their intestines. > > In 2003, two children, ages 6 and 12, had debilitating strokes due to drug > toxicities. The 6-year-old went blind. They both died shortly after. Another > 14-year old died recently. An 8-year-old boy had two plastic surgeries to > remove large, fatty, drug-induced lumps from his neck. > > This isn't science fiction. This is AIDS research. The children at ICC were > born to mothers who tested HIV positive, or who themselves tested positive. > However, neither parents nor children were told a crucial fact -- HIV tests > are extremely inaccurate.(1,2) The HIV test cross-reacts with nearly seventy > commonly-occurring conditions, giving false positive results. These > conditions include common colds, herpes, hepatitis, tuberculosis, drug > abuse, inoculations and most troublingly, current and prior > pregnancy.(3,4,5) This is a double inaccuracy, because the factors that > cause false positives in pregnant mothers can be passed to their children - > who are given the same false diagnosis. > > Most of us have never heard this before. It's undoubtedly the biggest secret > in medicine. However, it's well known among HIV researchers that HIV tests > are extremely inaccurate - but the researchers don't tell the doctors, and > they certainly don't tell the children at ICC, who serve as test animals for > the next generation of AIDS drugs. ICC is run by Columbia University's > Presbyterian Hospital in affiliation with Catholic Home Charities through > the Archdiocese of New York. > > Sean and Dana Newberg are two children from ICC. Their mother used drugs and > was unable to care for them properly, so they were raised in foster care, > until their great-aunt Mona adopted them. Mona Newberg is a teacher in the > New York Public Schools, and has her Master's degree in Education. She > adopted the children when Sean was three and Dana was six. She was already > raising their older brother, who was never given an HIV test or AIDS drugs. > He's now grown, healthy and serving in the Navy. > > Their mother used heroin and crack cocaine since she was a teenager. She was > given an HIV test in the late 80s and tested positive. " She had three > children before Sean and Dana, " said Mona. " Nobody told us that the test > cross-reacted with drug abuse, let alone pregnancy. It's not a valid test. " > > Because of the test result, the doctors at Columbia Presbyterian put Sean on > AZT monotherapy when he was 5 months old. Use of AZT monotherapy is now > considered malpractice because it can cause debilitating, fatal illness > including fatal anemia. > > Sean has been on life support twice as a result of the AIDS drug Nevirapine. > Dana was put on AIDS drugs in 2002, even though she wasn't sick. Since being > put on the drugs, Dana has developed cancer. > > Both children have been taken into ICC and kept there against their will and > against Mona's wishes for one reason - Mona has questioned the safety of the > AIDS drugs AZT, Nevirapine and Kaletra and stopped giving the drugs when > they made the children ill. In the summer and fall of 2003, I visited Mona, > Sean, Dana and ICC. I spoke with Mona about her experience and her decision. > > > > Liam Scheff: What led you to question the safety of the drugs? Mona Newberg: > When I first got Sean at three years old, he was a vegetable. He'd never > eaten solid food. He had a feeding tube that went through his nose into his > stomach. AIDS medications change the taste buds. AZT, especially, makes it > so kids can't stand the taste of food and won't eat. The nurses fed Sean > AZT, Bactrim and six cans of Pediasure a day through this tube, which stayed > in his stomach for over two years. Nobody ever bothered to change it. > > When I got Sean, I continued to give him the drugs as prescribed for about 5 > months. But after each spoonful, he got weaker. I thought, wait a minute - > this stuff is supposed to be making him better, why is he getting worse? > > [Mona eventually decided to take Sean off the drugs, and found that his > health improved gradually but steadily. The Agency for Child Services didn't > approve of her choice - to refuse AZT for Sean, even though it made him ill, > and signed him up with a doctor at Beth Israel]. > > Mona: An ACS worker came to my door, and told me I had to register the kids > with an infectious disease doctor - Dr. Howard at Beth Israel. I was taking > Sean and Dana to a Naturopathic MD, and they were both healthy and strong. I > told them that we had a doctor. They said, " Too bad, you have to see Dr. > Howard now. " > > Howard was terrible for the children. He ignored the only thing that > actually bothered Sean - his lung condition, and insisted that he go on a > new drug for HIV. He said, " There's a new miracle drug. It just came on the > market. I guarantee if you give it to Sean, you'll watch the miracle > happen " . > > LS: What was the miracle drug? > > Mona: Nevirapine. Howard put Sean on Nevirapine. Sean's health immediately > deteriorated. He got sicker, his lungs congested, he lost weight, his > cheekbones sunk, his liver and spleen started to go. Six months after he > went on Nevirapine, he had complete organ failure. He was on life support > for two weeks at Beth Israel Hospital. Then I did some research on > Nevirapine, and found out that it caused organ failure and death. When Sean > finally got out of the hospital, Howard discharged him on hospice care. Six > months earlier, he was healthy. Now they were telling me to prepare for his > death. > > [Mona was able to get Sean out of the hospital and bring him home. She > stopped giving the Nevirapine, and Sean gradually improved. She was then > approached by an ACS worker to put Sean into ICC.] > > The ACS worker told me I should put Sean into Incarnation Children's Center > until he was stronger. They told me that ICC was this wonderful place. They > said in four months he'd be strong enough to come back home. ICC took Sean > off the Nevirapine and put him on Viracept, Epivir, Zerit and Bactrim. Sean > improved off the Nevirapine, but the new drugs definitely made him sick - > just not as badly. He had trouble walking, and his arms and legs got even > thinner. > > I visited Sean at ICC for five months. Then, when I wanted to bring him > home, they said, " We donÕt recommend that Sean leave here. You have a > reputation for not giving meds. " > > LS: ICC refused to let Sean come home? > > Mona: Right. They kept him for a year and a half. I had to get a lawyer to > get him out. > > LS: What was it like for Sean at ICC? > > Mona: There were children in wheelchairs, on crutches, with deformations. > There were AZT babies. Their heads have a different shape, with the eyes > spaced wide and sunken in. The drugs cause severe developmental problems. > Many children have misshapen, weak limbs and distended bellies. Many are > learning disabled. The kids at ICC are constantly medicated with all kinds > of drugs. When children refuse the drugs the nurses hold them down and force > feed them. Sean wanted to get the hell out of there. > > During my visits I noticed that many children at ICC were walking around > with tubes hanging from their undershirts, and I wondered what they were. > Then one day, I saw the nurse come in with a whole tray of medications and > syringes, and I watched her inject this medication into the tubes coming out > of their stomachs. I couldn't believe it. I thought, my god, what's going on > here? > > Every child who had a stomach tube took their medication that way, from the > three-year-olds to the teenagers. It horrified me. I couldn't understand it. > When I found out what was being done, I thought, surely this must be > illegal. There's no way they could be doing this legally. > > I expressed my concerns to Sean's ACS case worker. I said, " Do you know what > they're doing to those kids in there? This reminds me of Nazi Germany. " He > said, " They're doing wonderful things for these children. " I called Albany, > the state capital, and talked to [name withheld] at the State Department of > Health's AIDS Institute. He said, " What are we going to do if these little > children refuse to take the medication? How are we going to save their lives > if we don't perform this operation? " > > LS: Who performs this operation? > > Mona: The children are sent to Columbia-Presbyterian for the operation. The > surgeons there do it. > > [Mona described the children who've died at ICC. Two children, ages six and > twelve, had strokes from drug toxicity. One went blind, and they both died > shortly after. Amir, a nine-year-old, has had repeated operations to remove > fatty lumps from his neck and back. The fist-sized lumps (lipodystrophy) are > caused by AIDS drugs called protease inhibitors. " The children at ICC who > don't have the tubes tend to be a whole lot healthier and live a whole lot > longer than the ones with the tubes, " Mona said]. > > LS: ICC is part of a national program running AIDS drug trials. Have you > ever signed a waiver permitting them to use your children in a drug trial? > > Mona: No, never. But ACS has signed for me when I didn't want to give Sean > drugs. When I said, " No, " the ACS case worker grabbed the form and said, > " I'll sign it. You don't need to. " They're always switching medications - > they never ask me if it's okay. > > Right now, most of the kids at ICC are on Kaletra. Kaletra was on fast-track > approval. It was released before testing was complete. But they do know > something about Kaletra. It causes cancer. It says on the label, that this > drug causes cancer in test animals. > > I fought for a year to get Sean home. ICC wanted to put him in a foster home > where someone would be paid to feed him the drugs every day. I got a lawyer > and we finally got Sean out of there. My lawyer was able to get Sean's ICC > medical records. He told me, " Sean was tortured at Incarnation. He was > tortured. " > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 27, 2004 Report Share Posted May 27, 2004 - " 121 " <121 " *§ @y " Friday, May 21, 2004 7:25 PM Poor children in US forced to take experimental drugs for AIDS > Poor children in US forced to take experimental drugs for AIDS > > > > > > - > > " Frank " <califpacific > > <alternative_medicine_forum > > > Saturday, January 31, 2004 4:11 AM > > The House That AIDS Built > > > > > > > http://www.aimultimedia.com/aidsmythexposed/arc_pages/liam_child_article.htm > > l > > > > > > What follows is an extended excerpt from the complete article " The House > > That AIDS Built, " by journalist Liam Scheff. > > > > This article deals with pharmaceutical abuse in a children's home in NYC. > > This is a most controversial story - however, it's entirely based in fact > > and good reporting. I hope you'll find it as compelling and shocking as I > > did investigating it. > > > > The complete article needs a home in a printed publication. If you run or > > are associated with a brave, honest journal which reaches a reasonably > wide > > audience and has an active, solid web-base, please contact me at > > liamscheff > > > > The House That AIDS Built > > > > [excerpt] > > > > By Liam Scheff > > > > Introduction: > > > > In New York's Washington Heights is a 4-story brick building called > > Incarnation Children's Center (ICC). This former convent houses a > revolving > > stable of children who've been removed from their own homes by the Agency > > for Child Services. These children are black, Hispanic and poor. Many of > > their mothers had a history of drug abuse and have died. Once taken into > > ICC, the children become subjects of drug trials sponsored by NIAID > > (National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Disease, a division of the > > NIH), NICHD (the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development) > > in conjunction with some of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies - > > GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer, Genentech, Chiron/Biocine and others. > > > > The drugs being given to the children are toxic - they're known to cause > > genetic mutation, organ failure, bone marrow death, bodily deformations, > > brain damage and fatal skin disorders. If the children refuse the drugs, > > they're held down and have them force fed. If the children continue to > > resist, they're taken to Columbia Presbyterian hospital where a surgeon > puts > > a plastic tube through their abdominal wall into their stomachs. From then > > on, the drugs are injected directly into their intestines. > > > > In 2003, two children, ages 6 and 12, had debilitating strokes due to drug > > toxicities. The 6-year-old went blind. They both died shortly after. > Another > > 14-year old died recently. An 8-year-old boy had two plastic surgeries to > > remove large, fatty, drug-induced lumps from his neck. > > > > This isn't science fiction. This is AIDS research. The children at ICC > were > > born to mothers who tested HIV positive, or who themselves tested > positive. > > However, neither parents nor children were told a crucial fact -- HIV > tests > > are extremely inaccurate.(1,2) The HIV test cross-reacts with nearly > seventy > > commonly-occurring conditions, giving false positive results. These > > conditions include common colds, herpes, hepatitis, tuberculosis, drug > > abuse, inoculations and most troublingly, current and prior > > pregnancy.(3,4,5) This is a double inaccuracy, because the factors that > > cause false positives in pregnant mothers can be passed to their > children - > > who are given the same false diagnosis. > > > > Most of us have never heard this before. It's undoubtedly the biggest > secret > > in medicine. However, it's well known among HIV researchers that HIV tests > > are extremely inaccurate - but the researchers don't tell the doctors, and > > they certainly don't tell the children at ICC, who serve as test animals > for > > the next generation of AIDS drugs. ICC is run by Columbia University's > > Presbyterian Hospital in affiliation with Catholic Home Charities through > > the Archdiocese of New York. > > > > Sean and Dana Newberg are two children from ICC. Their mother used drugs > and > > was unable to care for them properly, so they were raised in foster care, > > until their great-aunt Mona adopted them. Mona Newberg is a teacher in the > > New York Public Schools, and has her Master's degree in Education. She > > adopted the children when Sean was three and Dana was six. She was already > > raising their older brother, who was never given an HIV test or AIDS > drugs. > > He's now grown, healthy and serving in the Navy. > > > > Their mother used heroin and crack cocaine since she was a teenager. She > was > > given an HIV test in the late 80s and tested positive. " She had three > > children before Sean and Dana, " said Mona. " Nobody told us that the test > > cross-reacted with drug abuse, let alone pregnancy. It's not a valid > test. " > > > > Because of the test result, the doctors at Columbia Presbyterian put Sean > on > > AZT monotherapy when he was 5 months old. Use of AZT monotherapy is now > > considered malpractice because it can cause debilitating, fatal illness > > including fatal anemia. > > > > Sean has been on life support twice as a result of the AIDS drug > Nevirapine. > > Dana was put on AIDS drugs in 2002, even though she wasn't sick. Since > being > > put on the drugs, Dana has developed cancer. > > > > Both children have been taken into ICC and kept there against their will > and > > against Mona's wishes for one reason - Mona has questioned the safety of > the > > AIDS drugs AZT, Nevirapine and Kaletra and stopped giving the drugs when > > they made the children ill. In the summer and fall of 2003, I visited > Mona, > > Sean, Dana and ICC. I spoke with Mona about her experience and her > decision. > > > > > > > > Liam Scheff: What led you to question the safety of the drugs? Mona > Newberg: > > When I first got Sean at three years old, he was a vegetable. He'd never > > eaten solid food. He had a feeding tube that went through his nose into > his > > stomach. AIDS medications change the taste buds. AZT, especially, makes it > > so kids can't stand the taste of food and won't eat. The nurses fed Sean > > AZT, Bactrim and six cans of Pediasure a day through this tube, which > stayed > > in his stomach for over two years. Nobody ever bothered to change it. > > > > When I got Sean, I continued to give him the drugs as prescribed for about > 5 > > months. But after each spoonful, he got weaker. I thought, wait a minute - > > this stuff is supposed to be making him better, why is he getting worse? > > > > [Mona eventually decided to take Sean off the drugs, and found that his > > health improved gradually but steadily. The Agency for Child Services > didn't > > approve of her choice - to refuse AZT for Sean, even though it made him > ill, > > and signed him up with a doctor at Beth Israel]. > > > > Mona: An ACS worker came to my door, and told me I had to register the > kids > > with an infectious disease doctor - Dr. Howard at Beth Israel. I was > taking > > Sean and Dana to a Naturopathic MD, and they were both healthy and strong. > I > > told them that we had a doctor. They said, " Too bad, you have to see Dr. > > Howard now. " > > > > Howard was terrible for the children. He ignored the only thing that > > actually bothered Sean - his lung condition, and insisted that he go on a > > new drug for HIV. He said, " There's a new miracle drug. It just came on > the > > market. I guarantee if you give it to Sean, you'll watch the miracle > > happen " . > > > > LS: What was the miracle drug? > > > > Mona: Nevirapine. Howard put Sean on Nevirapine. Sean's health immediately > > deteriorated. He got sicker, his lungs congested, he lost weight, his > > cheekbones sunk, his liver and spleen started to go. Six months after he > > went on Nevirapine, he had complete organ failure. He was on life support > > for two weeks at Beth Israel Hospital. Then I did some research on > > Nevirapine, and found out that it caused organ failure and death. When > Sean > > finally got out of the hospital, Howard discharged him on hospice care. > Six > > months earlier, he was healthy. Now they were telling me to prepare for > his > > death. > > > > [Mona was able to get Sean out of the hospital and bring him home. She > > stopped giving the Nevirapine, and Sean gradually improved. She was then > > approached by an ACS worker to put Sean into ICC.] > > > > The ACS worker told me I should put Sean into Incarnation Children's > Center > > until he was stronger. They told me that ICC was this wonderful place. > They > > said in four months he'd be strong enough to come back home. ICC took Sean > > off the Nevirapine and put him on Viracept, Epivir, Zerit and Bactrim. > Sean > > improved off the Nevirapine, but the new drugs definitely made him sick - > > just not as badly. He had trouble walking, and his arms and legs got even > > thinner. > > > > I visited Sean at ICC for five months. Then, when I wanted to bring him > > home, they said, " We donÕt recommend that Sean leave here. You have a > > reputation for not giving meds. " > > > > LS: ICC refused to let Sean come home? > > > > Mona: Right. They kept him for a year and a half. I had to get a lawyer to > > get him out. > > > > LS: What was it like for Sean at ICC? > > > > Mona: There were children in wheelchairs, on crutches, with deformations. > > There were AZT babies. Their heads have a different shape, with the eyes > > spaced wide and sunken in. The drugs cause severe developmental problems. > > Many children have misshapen, weak limbs and distended bellies. Many are > > learning disabled. The kids at ICC are constantly medicated with all kinds > > of drugs. When children refuse the drugs the nurses hold them down and > force > > feed them. Sean wanted to get the hell out of there. > > > > During my visits I noticed that many children at ICC were walking around > > with tubes hanging from their undershirts, and I wondered what they were. > > Then one day, I saw the nurse come in with a whole tray of medications and > > syringes, and I watched her inject this medication into the tubes coming > out > > of their stomachs. I couldn't believe it. I thought, my god, what's going > on > > here? > > > > Every child who had a stomach tube took their medication that way, from > the > > three-year-olds to the teenagers. It horrified me. I couldn't understand > it. > > When I found out what was being done, I thought, surely this must be > > illegal. There's no way they could be doing this legally. > > > > I expressed my concerns to Sean's ACS case worker. I said, " Do you know > what > > they're doing to those kids in there? This reminds me of Nazi Germany. " He > > said, " They're doing wonderful things for these children. " I called > Albany, > > the state capital, and talked to [name withheld] at the State Department > of > > Health's AIDS Institute. He said, " What are we going to do if these little > > children refuse to take the medication? How are we going to save their > lives > > if we don't perform this operation? " > > > > LS: Who performs this operation? > > > > Mona: The children are sent to Columbia-Presbyterian for the operation. > The > > surgeons there do it. > > > > [Mona described the children who've died at ICC. Two children, ages six > and > > twelve, had strokes from drug toxicity. One went blind, and they both died > > shortly after. Amir, a nine-year-old, has had repeated operations to > remove > > fatty lumps from his neck and back. The fist-sized lumps (lipodystrophy) > are > > caused by AIDS drugs called protease inhibitors. " The children at ICC who > > don't have the tubes tend to be a whole lot healthier and live a whole lot > > longer than the ones with the tubes, " Mona said]. > > > > LS: ICC is part of a national program running AIDS drug trials. Have you > > ever signed a waiver permitting them to use your children in a drug trial? > > > > Mona: No, never. But ACS has signed for me when I didn't want to give Sean > > drugs. When I said, " No, " the ACS case worker grabbed the form and said, > > " I'll sign it. You don't need to. " They're always switching medications - > > they never ask me if it's okay. > > > > Right now, most of the kids at ICC are on Kaletra. Kaletra was on > fast-track > > approval. It was released before testing was complete. But they do know > > something about Kaletra. It causes cancer. It says on the label, that this > > drug causes cancer in test animals. > > > > I fought for a year to get Sean home. ICC wanted to put him in a foster > home > > where someone would be paid to feed him the drugs every day. I got a > lawyer > > and we finally got Sean out of there. My lawyer was able to get Sean's ICC > > medical records. He told me, " Sean was tortured at Incarnation. He was > > tortured. " > > > > > > > > > > «¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤ » > > § - PULSE ON WORLD HEALTH CONSPIRACIES! § > > Subscribe:......... - > To :.... - > > Any information here in is for educational purpose only, it may be news related, purely speculation or someone's opinion. Always consult with a qualified health practitioner before deciding on any course of treatment, especially for serious or life-threatening illnesses. > **COPYRIGHT NOTICE** > In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. 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