‘Guinea Pig Kids’ – Black children in care
The television programme ‘Guinea Pig Kids’ refers to the sickening plight of thousands of innocent African American children in New York, whose only crime is to have contracted the HIV virus. Pharmaceutical companies, including the British based GlaxoSmithKline have been involved in a series of controversial drug trials, testing a deadly cocktail of supposedly anti-AIDS medicines on children, some as young as 3 months old. The problem with these drugs, such as AZT, is they have serious side effects ranging from debilitating skin diseases to muscle wasting, organ failure and even death. As well as the frightening reality of this suffering, there is little if any evidence that the drugs work at all. In fact, when carers stopped giving the children this medication their health improved dramatically. (full article)
This same practice has been done on children in foster care/Children that are under the custody of the state for years in other parts of the country.
