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United Press International; Saturday January 31 6:19 PM EST
The Los Angeles Times reports today that Dr. Peter Kerndt's proposed study would help lay the groundwork for later tests of an AIDS vaccine by the National Institutes of Health.
The vaccine study's administrators at NIH say Kerndt had proposed to study the behavior of heterosexual black women whose lifestyles make them "high risk" for contracting the AIDS virus.
Kerndt is also heading a study for the Center for Disease Control that tests people for exposure to the HIV virus.
Homeless Outreach Program Executive Director Mike Neely told the Times he expressed concern to county Supervisor Yvonne Brathwaite Burke that Kerndt would "sneak people in" to the controversial vaccine program after recruiting them for the CDC study.
Burke told county health officials she suspected Kerndt would use poor blacks from her district as "guinea pigs" in tests of a vaccine and called the study "scientific racism."
Health department officials suspended both studies Friday amid allegations that Kerndt did not request approval for the project through the proper channels and did not disclose that an AIDS vaccine could contain components of the HIV virus.
But the Times also obtained interdepartmental correspondence suggesting that Kerndt's supervisors knew all about the project, but may have failed to inform the department's upper management.
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