Tuesday, November 29, 2011 8:57:12 AM
I don't have to do that, as I never claimed that AQLV required the subjects in their study to discontinue their antiretrovirals.
What Hoffman and Mutisya did do, however, by their own admission was conduct an unauthorised experiment with their unapproved treatment for HIV/AIDS, NatuRx among ten Kenyan HIV/AIDS patients. The entirely predictable result of this was that the patients discontinued their life-saving anti-retrovirals. Indeed Hoffman and his associates seem quite proud of this:
" AquaLiv, Inc., has concluded a pilot study of its NatuRx™ HIV/AIDS treatment ......
"Earlier this year, Mr. Mutisya supplied 10 Kenyans with our NatuRx™ HIV/AIDS treatment. Since then, they stopped taking their costly antiretroviral drugs and their condition has improved [/i[color=blue]][it's not clear how they could have determined their condition improved - most patients on ARVs are essentially asymptomatic for AIDS - conversely if they stop their ARVs the symptoms invariably return - and then they die][/color] . Mr. Mutisya is now a believer in AquaLiv technology," added Mr. Hoffman."
http://www.aqualiv.net/news/news-releases/128-naturx-hiv-study
Any regulatory authority or Ethics Committee who had been prospectively informed of AQLV's "study" would have foreseen this risk, which is commonly acknowledged, especially among the populations of developing countries.
That AQLV conducted this study without such approvals was not only criminally negligent, it was also illegal in numerous other ways that I have explained before and will do again if necessary.
Their actions should be indefensible by all right-thinking folk with any sense of decency or ethics.
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Upton Sinclair
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