BBC NEWS | Programmes | This World | New York’s HIV experiment — This is a horrible story that is obviously being supressed at the behest of the large drug companies! Who else could be behind it?

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

Incarnation Children’s Center, Harlem…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.

“We were told that if they were vomiting, if they lost their ability to walk, if they were having diarrhoea, if they were dying, then all of this was because of their HIV infection.”

In fact it was the drugs that were making the children ill and the children had been enrolled on the secret trials without their relatives’ or guardians’ knowledge.

As Jacklyn would later discover, those who tried to take the children off the drugs risked losing them into care.

As of this writing I could find very litle about this in the US News media, especially the daily newspapers. Why?

You’re more likely to find coverage in the Scotsman. In fact you do.

Article titled: The Manhattan Project Part 2.

Like something out of a Gothic horror story, Guinea Pig Kids was an investigation into experimental drug trials conducted on sick children. The shock factor was that this wasn’t happening in the third world, but in New York. There was no need for a villainous child-catcher to lure innocents to a sinister lab, because the medical experiments were being authorised by the city’s own Administration for Child Services.

The children involved were HIV-positive and living in care homes or with foster parents in the city. As the documentary explained, there was no evidence that the drugs in question were prolonging the children’s lives, but there was evidence that the medicine was causing them pain and distress. The film-makers seemed to have uncovered something sinister, but unless you were an expert in medication for HIV, it was difficult to work out exactly who to believe.

When parents refused to give their HIV-positive children medication, these children were taken into care and the drugs were effectively force-fed. In one case Jacklyn Hoerger, a nurse who adopted two HIV-positive girls, was convicted of child abuse for refusing to administer the drugs – even though the girls’ health improved when they were drug-free.