Not a thing of the past after all?
Hundreds of HIV+ Foster Children in NYC Subjected to Experimental Drug Trials
Last December, Democracy Now reported that a BBC documentary exposed how the city of New York had been forcing HIV-positive children under its supervision to be used as human guinea pigs in tests for experimental AIDS drug trials.
All of the children in the program were under the legal guidance of the city’s child welfare department, the Administration for Children’s Services or ACS. Most lived in foster care or independent homes run on behalf of the local authorities and almost all the children were believed to be African-American or Latino.