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The stop-work order on U.S.A.I.D.-funded research has left thousands of people with experimental drugs and devices in their bodies, with no access to monitoring or care. (archive.ph)

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In England, about 100 people have been inoculated with an experimental malaria vaccine in two clinical trials. Now, they no longer have access to the clinical trial staff if that vaccine were to cause an adverse reaction in their bodies.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

The ethical implosion here is staggering. Cutting off trials mid-stream isn’t policy—it’s human experimentation without accountability. Thousands left with untested devices in their bodies, abandoned like lab rats after the funding tap shuts off. This isn’t governance; it’s malpractice dressed as austerity.

Remember apartheid’s horrors? Colonial medicine’s ghosts just got a fresh coat of red tape. Trust built over decades incinerated overnight because some bureaucrat decided “wasteful” meant “saving lives.” The real virus here is the rot in systems that treat people as disposable. Democracy’s corpse twitches while trials collapse, proving once again that power cares more about optics than oxygen.