Monday, August 08, 2011

U.S. pharmaceutical companies testing drugs on India's poor...

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We looked at the girls who were vaccinated while they were at school in India’s tribal region. It was the school’s headmaster, and not the families of the girls, who gave consent for the girls to participate in the vaccination program. The headmaster is no longer working at that school, and he has not been prosecuted. In fact, the government’s investigation found that there is no one party responsible for any wrongdoing, and therefore no one was to be prosecuted.

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The U.S. Department of Justice launched its investigation in the summer of 2010. In India, many health workers (doctors, nurses, etcetera) and health officials work for state-run hospitals and government agencies, which makes them government employees. Bribing them to advance business interests violates U.S. antibribery laws.

During the course of our reporting, one doctor told us when the camera was not rolling that he taken his family to the United States on trips funded by the CRO and pharma companies. Another doctor said – on the record – that he witnessed how pharmaceutical companies have offered some of his colleagues kickbacks and all-expenses paid trips to the U.S. and other Western countries. The DOJ is investigating whether such perks are being used to advance business interests. Full story...

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