Forum to Discuss Protecting Prison Inmates as Drug Test Subjects

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Forum to Discuss Protecting Prison Inmates as Drug Test Subjects

Boston Globe Online (10/11/99) P. A3
Whitaker, Robert

AIDS doctors, ethicists, lawyers, prisoner advocates, and others will meet at Brown University this week to discuss draft recommendations for using prisoners as subjects for a late-stage trials of AIDS drugs. Although there are not very many such trials being conducted at present, physicians and advocates say more should be conducted because drug studies can provide HIV-infected prisoners with better medical treatment. John McFeel, a lawyer on the executive committee of the AIDS Clinical Trials Group, notes that inmates do not have access to drug trials in most states. Participants at the meeting, which is funded in part by Bristol-Myers Squibb, are seeking to ensure that prisoners are not exploited in drug trials, as they were several decades ago.

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