Poor Families Pressed Into Vaccine Trials by Drug Companies; 12 Babies Die Major pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline has been accused of pressuring poor Third World parents into enrolling their children in experimental drug trials that have led to the deaths of at least 12 infants. The company is currently testing an experimental pneumonia vaccine on children under the age of one in Argentina, Colombia and Panama. According to the Argentine Federation of Health Professionals (Feprosa), poor Argentinean parents have been "pressured and forced into signing consent forms." |
December 9, 2008
Poor Families Pressed Into Vaccine Trials
