Poor children in US forced to take experimental drugs for AIDS

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Poor children in US forced to take experimental drugs for AIDS

 

 

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> " 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. "

>

>

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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. "

> >

> >

>

>

>

>

>

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