Poor Patients Rights being violated in India-by illegal clinical trials

Dear All,

Gross Human Rights violations on Indian poor-illiterate Patients used them as guinea pigs-nearly 2000 patients has died in 2011- More than 150 US drug companies employing CROs - or clinical research organisations - the industry is big busin

ess, worth as much as $30bn -Why the norms are being violated and patients right charter not endorsed and their human rights not protected till date in India? 

US pharmaceutical companies have moved their operations overseas over the course of the past decade.Instead of testing trial medicines on Americans, more and more of these tests are being carried out on poor people in faraway places. Russia, China, Brazil, Poland, Uganda and Romania are all hot spots for what is called clinical research or clinical trials.

Now employing CROs - or clinical research organisations - the industry is big business, worth as much as $30bn today.

One country has experienced a boom like no other in this industry - India. Spoken English, an established medical infrastructure, welcoming attitudes toward foreign industry and, most importantly, legions of poor, illiterate test subjects that are willing to try out new drugs have transformed the Indian landscape into a massive testing ground for pharmaceuticals.

Fault Lines' Zeina Awad travels to India to see what the clinical research practices look like on the ground. What role are the US regulatory bodies playing in overseeing the trials? Are participants aware that they are taking part in a clinical trial? Is the testing being held up against international ethical standards?

Why Indian patient's rights are not protected according to law and charter not endorse till now?

Aljazeerahttp://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/faultlines/2011/07/2011711112453541600.html

Aljazeera investigate clinical trials in India where poor patients human rights are grossly violated vedio:-

http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/faultlines/2011/07/2011711112453541600.html