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Protections for Foster Children Enrolled in Clinical Trials
The following testimony was presented to the House Committee on Ways and Means Subcommittee on Human Resources on Wednesday, May 18, 2005 at a hearing on Protections for Foster Children Enrolled in Clinical Trials.
Alan Fleischman, M.D., Senior Advisor, The New York Academy of Medicine, New York, New York
Roberta Harris, Deputy Secretary, Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services, Madison, Wisconsin
Marjorie Speers, Ph.D., Executive Director, Association for the Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs, Inc.
Moira Szilagyi, M.D., Ph.D., Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics, on behalf of the American Academy of Pediat...
Federal Regulation of International Adoption
Introduction
It has been over ten years since the United States signed the Hague Convention on Intercountry Adoption. It has been nearly seven years since the White House transmitted the treaty to the Senate for ratification. It has been four years since the Senate ratified the treaty and President Clinton signed the enabling legislation, the Intercountry Adoption Act (IAA) into law. It has been over three years since the State Department held a series of public meetings to elicit information to inform the process of writing implementing regulations.
International adoption has been a widely accepted practice in the United States for over fifty ...
Foster Care Meets the Third Reich
Over one year ago, the Alliance for Human Research Protection in New York City alerted the federal Food and Drug Administration that they had “reason to believe that federal regulations for the protection of children as research subjects have been seriously violated in federally funded HIV research.”
Kudos also to Liam Scheff who in December 2003 broke the story of the drug trials in an online article entitled “The House That AIDS Built”.
AHRP’s letter to the FDA states that “a series of Phase I and Phase II drug experiments were conducted on infants and children who were under the guardianship of the New York ...