PHA-Exchange> "Drug Trials: The Dark Side"

[Claudio]

From: Abraham Thomas 


Thousands of poor and illiterate patients are being recruited onto clinical trials in India to test new drugs for the West. 
  a.. Visit http://www.phmovement.org/en/news

India's outsourced call centres are well known, but not its outsourced patients.
By 2010, some estimate there will be two million patients in India on clinical trials. An entire industry has sprung up, specialising in recruiting patients and managing experiments. And a BBC investigation into the conduct of these trials has found that some patients are unaware they are being experimented on at all. Most of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies have a presence in India, but there is concern about how the country achieves its exceptional recruitment rates and questions about fully-informed consent.

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