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The AZT placebo that let a thousand babies be born HIV-positive
A clinical trial in Zimbabwe gave half of 17,000 HIV-positive pregnant women placebo instead of proven AZT - how did that expose them?
The AZT placebo that let a thousand babies be born HIV-positive
In this episode, we look at a four-year short-course AZT program in Zimbabwe that enrolled more than 17,000 HIV-positive pregnant women and split participants between drug and placebo. We trace the institutional, economic, and historical forces that shaped those trials and ask how that structure allowed known treatments to be withheld.
Person: Harriet A.
Date: 1994-1998
Location: Zimbabwe
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