tomorrow is World AIDS Day...pls read and email this BBC article

to everyone you know.

New York's HIV experiment
By Jamie Doran
Reporter/producer, Guinea Pig Kids


HIV positive children and their loved ones have few rights if they choose to battle with social work authorities in New York City.


Jacklyn Hoerger worked at the Incarnation Children's Center

Jacklyn Hoerger's job was to treat children with HIV at a New York children's home.

But nobody had told her that the drugs she was administering were experimental and highly toxic.


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When I first heard the story of the "guinea pig kids", I instinctively refused to believe that it could be happening in any civilised country, particularly the United States, where the propensity for legal action normally ensures a high level of protection.

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Central to this story is the city's child welfare department, the Administration for Children's Services (ACS).

The ACS, as it is known, was granted far-reaching powers in the 1990s by then-Republican Mayor Rudi Giuliani, after a particularly horrific child killing.

much more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/this_world/4038375.stm

autoimmunity from virtue or some doddering slobbering shit like that.