International (Asia)

Illegal AIDS Vaccine Causes Concern in India

Published in AIDS Weekly, November 18th, 1996

In 1994, 10 people infected with HIV in Mumbai, India, were administered a vaccine which they were assured was a miracle drug.

The first dose, administered at a charity clinic in Mumbai (previously Bombay) in March 1994, was followed a booster dose one month later. Before the third round, however, the vaccine trial was abandoned abruptly. The doctors involved did not offer any explanation to their patients.

Today one patient is dead, another is dying of blood cancer, and two of the remaining eight could not be traced by a group of activists who are campaigning to defend the rights of Indians dying of AIDS.

ABVA, an AIDS...

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