Where is humanity?
One day, during a lecture, my professor told me that he has just had a meeting from foreign pharmaceutical company, developing new regiment of Malaria drugs. They intended to do clinical trial in population with high prevalence of malaria somewhere in Papua. They specialized to this new drug that it can impede the recurrence of malaria caused by plasmodium vivax.
Make it brief, i just tell you, that it is known that patients with malaria vivax have to be given piperaquine for them to prevent the recurrence. There's evidence of that, that piperakuin compared to a sigle regiment will prevent the recurrence in malaria vivax. Anyway, this company, wanted to make clinical trial with three arms. One arm is a group of patient with the new drug regiment (their drug regiment), one arm is one patient with olad drug regiment (with piperaquine), and the last arm is patient with ancient regiment without piperaquine. My professor told them that it's be unethical and unfair for those in the non-piperaquine group since it was clear that piperaquine will prevent the recurrence. And you know what they said?
"Somebody has to sacrifice for the sake of knowledge"
Do you know what is this? this is Tuskegee all over again. We're not here to be some western company guinea pig.
With that, my professor sent them home, they said we're uptight and conventional. That we're not open for new changes. well, at least we still treat human as human.
Make it brief, i just tell you, that it is known that patients with malaria vivax have to be given piperaquine for them to prevent the recurrence. There's evidence of that, that piperakuin compared to a sigle regiment will prevent the recurrence in malaria vivax. Anyway, this company, wanted to make clinical trial with three arms. One arm is a group of patient with the new drug regiment (their drug regiment), one arm is one patient with olad drug regiment (with piperaquine), and the last arm is patient with ancient regiment without piperaquine. My professor told them that it's be unethical and unfair for those in the non-piperaquine group since it was clear that piperaquine will prevent the recurrence. And you know what they said?
"Somebody has to sacrifice for the sake of knowledge"
Do you know what is this? this is Tuskegee all over again. We're not here to be some western company guinea pig.
With that, my professor sent them home, they said we're uptight and conventional. That we're not open for new changes. well, at least we still treat human as human.