Don't be so quick to pull the Dr. Josef Mengele card. Let's take a rational look at this.
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The research funded by the National Institutes of Health spanned the country. It was most widespread in the 1990s as foster care agencies sought treatments for their HIV-infected children that weren't yet available in the marketplace.
The practice ensured that foster children _ mostly poor or minority _ received care from world-class researchers at government expense, slowing their rate of death and extending their lives. But it also exposed a vulnerable population to the risks of medical research and drugs that were known to have serious side effects in adults and for which the safety for children was unknown.
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So, foster care agencies sought treatment for HIV infected children, at a time when most, if not all, treatment was experimental? Hey, don't get me wrong. It sucks for sure. But, what else were they to do? To me, it sounds like a quintessential no win scenario. If they just did nothing, and just allowed the children to die of AIDS, then they are cold heartless bastards who just stood by and watched as children died. "Couldn't they have at least
tried to do something?" But, actually do try to do something that may help, or not (who knows), and you are labeled as a succesors of the Angel of Death of Auschwitz.
Now, had they knowingly, and intentionaly,
infected the kids with HIV, in order to conduct experiments...then I'd howl like a banshee. As it is, all I can do is look upon it as a huge shit sandwich.