Prostitutes doing it for all

A.Hidalgo

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Dominican prostitutes are part of a study by Merck to find a vaccine against the virus that causes AIDS. They will receive three injections for the first seven months of the study. The prostitutes must be followed up for a total of four years. Pride is the greatest reward for many of them. "We are doing it for the world" says 38 year old Lucila Mendoza Ovalle.

Imagine if four or five years from now the vaccines prove to be successful, we can look back at this moment and say these Dominican prostitutes were agents for the good of humanity.


Dominican prostitutes, facing AIDS crisis, test experimental vaccine - International Herald Tribune
 

audboogie

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I do not know whether the US is included in the study, but it's done in eight countries.

U.S. Drug Firm Under Fire for AIDS Study: Complaints Surface Over Tests on Volunteer Patients in Brazil

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The other test sites ? Haiti, United States, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Jamaica and Peru ? all have the same strain of HIV, said Merck spokeswoman Janet Skidmore. The strain is also found in Europe, meaning a formula that works here could find a lucrative global market. A trial was launched Thursday in South Africa to see if the vaccine would have any effect on African strains.
 

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are the girls in the programme here still clean or infected(excuse my ignorence).and whats the deal?are they going to have unprotected sex for the 4 yr period?or have sex without condoms?if they do it 4 years useing condoms what will this prove?
 

Chirimoya

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They are HIV negative, according to the articles I've read. Good point about the condoms.
 

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Prostitutes Here,AND All Over The World,..............

Will have "SEXUAL RELATIONS" without condoms!! They just use "No Condom??" as a way to increase their charges! They would not lell the truth about that when they are surveyed by the "STUDY"!

I KNOW!!!!:laugh:
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Kyle

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i don't want to crash this thread but i wonder if Merck has ever thought of the possibility of people "other than prostitutes" having AIDS ? i mean who is really a prostitute in the DR and who is not ?
 

J D Sauser

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Please enlighten me but is this the most sarcastic study ever??
Are they really going to spray x-number of girls... some with a vaccine of which no one really yet knows if it works and some with some placebo. Now you know how bright these girls are... Are they ALL (the ones with the placebo too) going to think they are safe and have un-safe sex? Condomfree sex makes way more money. That's not just going to kill most of these girls but also creating an AIDS breeding machine until they do die.
I don't know if I misunderstood that one, but if that's what it is :mad:

... J-D.
 

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how is it gonna work anyways? you give a placebo to some and vaccine to some, right? and then let them kin kan without a condom for 4 years, yes? and then what? some may be just plain lucky and never bonk anyone with HIV anyways. and why on earth is condom-free sex more expensive? who with the sound mind will have sex with a prostitute WITHOUT the rubber?

i thought that it's more like: doctors give the guinea pig a vaccine then shot them with the virus. there you go - instant results. you just need a bunch of freaks who will do it either for the love of all humanity or they have terminal disease and do not care much to contract HIV...
 

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I'm sure many more posters can come up with additional issues which suggest that these scientific trials are heavily biased. In the meantime, the health of the prostitutes are put at risk. Yes, there are many recent documented cases where an FDA approved medicine proved more deadly than the illness. Just recently in Africa, trials of an anti-AIDS gel were discontinued when preliminary results showed that the gel actually encouraged HIV infections...
 

J D Sauser

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... who with the sound mind will have sex with a prostitute WITHOUT the rubber?...

In Asia there are those (men, of course) who think that having un- protected sex with a virgin will cure them of their HIV infection... yes, this is how bad things can get... and it gets even worse, yes, there are those who will sell their daughter to perform that sort of "heath care".
Profound lack of education is the biggest driver of HIV infections, together with all sorts of strange believes covered under the shade of "traditions"... That's one more reason I have a mayor issue with this so called "scientific" vaccine test in countries where formal education is a luxury unreachable to too many. Why don't they better try it on some two thousand + bucks a pop Hollywood escorts... or are these just not stupid enough to fall for it?

... J-D.
 
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how is it gonna work anyways? you give a placebo to some and vaccine to some, right? and then let them kin kan without a condom for 4 years, yes? and then what? some may be just plain lucky and never bonk anyone with HIV anyways. and why on earth is condom-free sex more expensive? who with the sound mind will have sex with a prostitute WITHOUT the rubber?

i thought that it's more like: doctors give the guinea pig a vaccine then shot them with the virus. there you go - instant results. you just need a bunch of freaks who will do it either for the love of all humanity or they have terminal disease and do not care much to contract HIV...

What percentage of guinea pigs wear condoms in that study:bunny: :bunny:
 

M.A.R.

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i don't want to crash this thread but i wonder if Merck has ever thought of the possibility of people "other than prostitutes" having AIDS ? i mean who is really a prostitute in the DR and who is not ?

wait a minute did you just insult all Dominican women????? :mad: :mad: :mad: :speechles
 
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if they do this....the problem will compound rapidly , before it ever gets better...IF IT EVER does get better.

this plan could spread so much aids around the solution couldnt possible catch up...because the aids will spread far from the people who MIGHT have this POTENTIAL vaccine available to them.....

we know they wont start to spread this vaccine out amongst the poor campos.... ha ha ha......all the rich country's will buy up the supply.

there has got to be a better way...

this is playing with fire

bob