HLS Customer GlaxoSmithKline kills 12 babies

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Buenos Aires, Jul 10, 2008 (EFE via COMTEX)-- At least 12 babies who were part of a clinical study to test theeffectiveness of a vaccine against pneumonia have died over the past year inArgentina, the local press reported Thursday.The study was sponsored by global drug giant GlaxoSmithKline and useschildren from poor families, who are "pressured and forced into signingconsent forms," the Argentine Federation of Health Professionals, orFesprosa, said."This occurs without any type of state control" and "does not comply withminimum ethical requirements, " Fesprosa said.The vaccine trial is still ongoing despite the denunciations, and those incharge of the study were cited by the Critica newspaper as saying that theprocedures are being carried out in a lawful manner.Colombian and Panama were also chosen by GSK as staging grounds for trialsof the vaccine against the pneumococcal

bacteria.Since 2007, 15,000 children under the age of one from the Argentineprovinces of Mendoza, San Juan and Santiago del Estero have been included inthe research protocol, a statement of what the study is trying to achieve."Only 12 have died throughout the country, which is a very low figure if wecompare it with the deaths produced by respiratory illnesses caused by thepneumococcal bacteria," pediatrician Enrique Smith, one of the leadinvestigators, said.In Santiago del Estero, one of the country's poorest provinces, the trialswere authorized when Enrique's brother, Juan Carlos Smith, was provincialhealth minister.According to pediatrician Ana Maria Marchese, who works at the children'shospital in the provincial capital where the studies are being conducted,"because they can't experiment in Europe or the United States, they come todo it in third-world

countries.""A lot of people want to leave the protocol but aren't allowed; they forcethem to continue under the threat that if they leave they won't receive anyother vaccine," said Julieta Ovejero, great aunt of one of the six babieswho died in Santiago del Estero.Fesprosa's Juan Carlos Palomares said that "in most cases these areunderprivileged individuals, many of them unable to read or write, who arepressured into including their children" in the trials.According to Fesprosa, "the laboratory pays $8,000 for each child includedin the study, but none (of that money) remains in the province that lendsthe public facilities and the health personnel for the private research."EFE

 

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