AIDS Research Chief Rewrote Safety Report

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AIDS Research Chief Rewrote Safety Report

53 minutes ago 12/14/2004


By JOHN SOLOMON, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON - The government's chief of AIDS (news - web sites) research rewrote a safety report on a U.S.-funded drug study to change its conclusions and delete negative information. Later, he ordered the research resumed over the objections of his staff, documents show.

Dr. Edmund Tramont, chief of the National Institutes of Health (news - web sites)'s AIDS Division, took responsibility for both decisions. He cited his four decades of medical experience and argued that Africans in the midst of an AIDS crisis deserved some leniency in meeting U.S. safety standards, according to interviews and documents obtained by The Associated Press.

Tramont's staff, including his top deputy, had urged more scrutiny of the Uganda research site to ensure it overcame record-keeping problems, violations of federal patient safety safeguards and other issues that forced a 15-month halt to the research into using nevirapine to prevent African babies from getting AIDS from their mothers.

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1. Such bullshit

Its no wonder they can't clean the mess up over there. People who want to make a quick buck or people who have a hidden agenda keep the place down. I hope this guy gets taken down.