On 11/26/11, Anirban Mukherjee <sparsha.anir...@gmail.com> wrote: > nice posting. thanks. > > with greetings, Anirban Mukherjee > > On 11/26/11, Mujtaba Merchant <mujta...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hello Members, >> >> Although this article is not related to the group or anything to do with >> blindness or it's support, I felt it worth sharing with you all to build >> awareness of what is happening with our country and giant pharma companies >> in Europe and around the world. >> >> Indian Girls Become the Guinea Pigs for Western Companies >> >> >> >> Bangalore: In what could be seen as a new form of colonialism, India >> becomes >> the new testing ground for drugs for American, British and European >> pharmaceutical >> firms and according to a report on the 'Independent', between 2007 and >> 2010, >> at least 1,730 people died in India while, or after, participating in such >> trials. >> >> In an apparent show of the Western mode of exploitation, these >> multinational >> companies have been making the most of India's huge population and loose >> regulations >> in this regard over the last five years by which they manage to >> drastically >> cut short their expenses on research for these lucrative products which >> are >> to be sold in the West. >> >> Ever since the restrictions on drug trials were relaxed in India, the >> industry has grown to a point where more than 150,000 people are involved >> in >> at least >> 1,600 clinical trials for the Western firms like Pfizer, AstraZeneca and >> Merck. Although no official data is available on the size of this >> exploitative >> industry, it is estimated to be worth as much as 189 million pounds. While >> the many on whom the trials were done, may have been only eligible for the >> studies >> as they were ill, the following complications, even resulting in death, >> are >> often not properly investigated. >> >> While it is said that the crucial trials were carried out following >> appropriate guidelines, the report says the lack of oversight have >> resulted >> in a situation >> where poor and often illiterate individuals, picked from the tribal areas >> or >> city slums are used for the critical trials without obtaining proper >> informed >> consent which means they have apparently agreed to the trials without >> fully >> understanding what they are signing up for. At the shadow of this inhuman >> practice >> of drug trials on humans, a new industry has been spawned making >> significant >> profits by providing participants for these studies. >> >> An investigation by 'The Independent' in the Indian states of Madhya >> Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, as well as in Delhi and in London shows that >> hundreds of >> Indian tribal girls were recruited without proper parental consent for an >> immunization study sponsored by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, >> shockingly >> just on the node of the government hostel's warden. Several girls have >> reportedly killed and the controversial study was stopped by the federal >> authorities. >> The investigation also found the use by drug companies of survivors of the >> Bhopal tragedy, world's worst poisonous gas disaster, as 'guinea pigs' in >> at >> least 11 trials without proper informed consent. In another shocking >> finding, many cases of drug trials were reported at a government hospital >> in >> Indore >> of which 81 cases of adverse effects were reported. >> >> India is just one of those many developing countries being exploited for >> its >> large, ignorant and illiterate tribals by the Western pharmaceutical >> giants >> who spent over 40 billion pounds last year on research and development. >> It's >> said that over 120,000 trials are taking place in 178 countries and the >> companies >> can reportedly reduce up to 60 percent of their spending on research >> through >> outsourcing the works to these third world countries. The article also >> reveals >> that a quarter of all clinical data submitted to European drug regulators >> for approval are obtained from trials in low- and middle-income countries. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Search for old postings at: >> http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ >> >> To unsubscribe send a message to >> accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in >> with the subject unsubscribe. >> >> To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, >> please >> visit the list home page at >> http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in >> >> > > > Search for old postings at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ > > To unsubscribe send a message to > accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in > with the subject unsubscribe. > > To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please > visit the list home page at > http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in > > Dear Friend, this matter is not related to any problem, Suggestion or enquiry regarding Disabled comunity, or any technical suggestions for this kind of news we have another group of disabled persons like (sayeverything.org) here you can express everything according to the rules and norms of sayeverything.org
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