"ACT UP Is Leery of FDA's Plan for Fraud Unit"

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"ACT UP Is Leery of FDA's Plan for Fraud Unit"

Advocate (12/18/90) No. 566, P. 26
Harding, Rick

Abstract: ACT UP opposes the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) AIDS fraud project because the group thinks FDA officials will try to limit the availability of nontraditional medicine under the guise of eliminating quack remedies. ACT UP members say FDA officials should not be the ones to decide what works. However, LeVert Seabron, director of the FDA AIDS fraud project, said activists cannot protect poor, minority HIV sufferers who do not have the same access to health care and AIDS information and who may fall prey to fraudulent treatments. The FDA has begun holding conferences in several U.S. cities to establish AIDS task forces in the states with the highest AIDS caseloads. The task forces will investigate allegedly fraudulent drugs and therapies and ban only sales of products found to be blatantly fraudulent, Seabron said. ACT UP does not trust the FDA, however, because the agency has employed conference speakers, few of whom have actually used AIDS therapies, believed hostile to the group's cause.

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