Mr Nkombo told ZANIS in Mazabuka today, the ban is with immediate effect.
He said MDP should not even attempt to launch another feasibility study in Lubombo because the organisation will not be allowed to do so by the community.
Mr Nkombo challenged MDP management to tell the nation the criteria that was used to enroll the women who contracted the HIV and AIDs virus and the compensation involved.
He said Zambia is made of 72 districts but wondered why MDP selected to conduct the clinical trials in Mazabuka and only targeted women whose education levels are low.
MDP Community Liason officer, Kennedy Mundia however said the stance taken by the MP was wrong because his organisation is in a hurry to find a remedy to HIV and AIDS.
MDP targets to enroll 60 women in Lubombo for yet another ARV based Microbicide gel.
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Too late the hero.. some women have been infected for life…..unreversible… this is criminal..
Shouldn’t have allowed it to happen in the first place! And then you wonder why people are busy supporting Sata? Well, it is because we need brave Zambians like him who can tell these Western Pharmacists to keep their blood money and get the @!! out and stop messing with our peoples’ lives! This whole story just makes me annoyed big time!!!
Arrest those criminals… but Gary Nkombo where were you all that time??? you just reacting now!
they think we are monkeys to do there tests on-they must be arrested. lets them do the tests in there own country… death to them – they just took some live now
This is my home town I feel very sorry cos I heard this trial to some African countries the British medical authorities. Why not conducting the trial in Britain where they are over populated than Zambia?
Compensation even given to them will NEVER save them from death thru that infection. Punish the people responsible just like Libya did few years ago.
They (Zam women) aren’t mouses for testing medicine.
they think that we are monkeys to do their tests on us-they must be arrested. lets them do the tests in there own country… death to them – they just took some lives now
they think that we are monkeys to do their tests on us-they must be arrested. lets them do the tests in there own country… death to them – they just took some lives now
Kennedy Mundia must volunteer his wife, sisters, daughters, mother and grandmother for this reckless experiment.
Where were you Gary when the trials begun? These are the questions you should have asked then. The damage is already done and your task now as area MP is to ensure that all these women receive full compensation.
The damage has already been done. These women were not told the truth and they were not counselled thats why they rushed into being used for research because they were promised money. Why werent the tests done in Britain? We Africans are very sleepy wen it comes to such issues. The Westerners think we are monkeys and they cant wait to wipe us out, can our government look into this issue and compensate these poor women!
I wonder how much compensation these poor women will get. Lets compare that to the compensation of Roger Choongwe. Rupiah? George? Why are you so quiet in this matter?
#11 those thugs might have received green light from the gvt to undertake tests. If not quick action could have been taken to proscute them.
Bribe may have been paid to those agitating for more tests. They don’t thing positively to those affected people. CARELESS.
Ba LT, just say Mazabuka town. Saying town centre will shock the world. We Zambians tend to fall in love with words we least know their implication. Its a town centre, alright. But, Zambians use words such as shopping complex-referring to Avondale shopping mall, bus station referring to a bus stop, etc. Let’s not always go for bombastic things. Lets be down to earth and just work hard before we start seing complexes, stations, spaghetti junctions, real commutter transport networks, etc.
#2 I agree strongly with you!! To Gary Nkombo, better too late than never. As for this t.w.a.t. Kennedy Mundia, #8 has taken the words right out of my mouth. May God be your judge
Free sexual health advice is all these women got apparently!!
The deliberate introduction of the AIDS virus into mankind is exactly what has happened.
I read this on UKZambians and I was hoping it was not true. Apparently they recruited over 1,300 negative women and half of them contracted HIV during the trial. This is crazy, where are the protests? Why is everyone who is supposed to be in charge still napping?? This should be exposed to the whole world so everyone can see how evil the west is. This was deliberate, they knew exactly what they where doing. Fellow blogers please pass this on to all the media bodies you can find in whatever part of the world you are in and demand justic for our people!! We are not monkeys or rats in a lab!! We may be poor but this is inhumane. No I refuse to take this sitting down, am sending this story to all media bodies around the world. F*****g RB, wake the f*** up, docile fart!
I call upon all Mazabuka residents to match to Lusaka with sticks, axes, fire, dogs, juju and descend on these useless MMD!
And anyone who finds Veteran should light fire in his mouth until there is evidence of cooking!
It is clear the MP was not informed by these dubious MMD gov’t
#20 are you sure the MP was not informed of what was going on in his constituency?Then why is he MP and what is he doing for the people who elected him?This is the problem us Zambians need to understand,we elect these people and all the do is sit in Lusaka doing nothing but waiting for their gratuity and their GX’s.This guy in other countries would have been forced to step down, and held accountable.People!!!! these people have maybe been unknowingly infected with HIV.Has the government and this MP asked themselves what if it was there family member or child.
I told you that HIV-AIDS was manufactured & we listen to lies that it came from monkeys because the manufactures don’t want to be liable for compasation to the sufferers
Well next time before anything to do with life is tested on human beings, don’t just rush to do tests that people don’t understand. These poor women have HIV now so what now? What is this miserable Team or the Government going to do? Hold these guys accountable somehow, they should now be part of the lives of the victims, supporting them in every way. I wonder why our parlianment does not subject these people with such projects to parliament to testify before the house. People should be held accountable, and they should accept ownership of this problem. MPS wake up and start working not just sitting in parliament, the public sends you there to be their voice and not to enrich your pockets. 2011 kuya bebele ngatamulebomba, its high time you started being accountable, no more losers.
I read the sentiments in the blogs and as usual, pity is the word on my mind. Pity because not a single blogger mentions issues of bioethical clearance. Years ago when I first learnt of this research, the question I raised was who gave them bioethical clearance. A friend that was part of the research decided to be mute.Was it UNZA or the MoH? This is the question that needs answering as it will apportion appropriate blame on the professionals that allowed such harmful research. If it is that the professionals were ordered by a politician to give ethical clearance, then let it be known. We need to stop uninformed arguments in this country. It is nauseating.
HOLD YOUR FIRE. tHIS WAS A COMPLETELY ETHICAL UNDERTAKING DONE IN MANY OTHER COUNTRIES INCLUDING S. AFRICA. THE Principal investigator was Zambian. All drugs and new pharmaceuticals go through phase 3 trials. That’s how you blacks are now enjoying ARVs developed in similar ways. Learn to give to mankind & Africa will develop.
@25 HIV for Blacks? …, and most high risk bio-research trials are undertaken on knowledgeable volunteers not a bunch of semi-literates, except for trials that in the past were undertaken on poverty stricken blacks. Could be we still live in the past.
Who tells you things like these? Whose classification is high risk bioresearch? Non sense. This trial did not add any more risk than the base line (control). Infact fewer got HIV in the drug arm only not significant. Acquint yourself with facts instead of and sounding knowledgeable and yet donkely.
@27 HIV for Black? There is no point in engaging with you due to your recourse to insults. Good day and happy new year.
Someone needs to start an online petition, a strong message needs to be sent ,this is criminal and only the knowledgable, educated and exposed can stand up for the rights of those who have no voices. History will judge the elite if nothing is done for those who have been taken advantage of. A lifetime income equal to what someone in the developed countries should receive needs to be given to the victims. The days of ignorance has long gone, minorities will no longer be taken advantage of. God bless Zambia and may God bless the minorities.
You sound fairly literate to be able to find out that there is no black or white in science, only the human family, there are no poor people illiterates, only special categories like minors, prisoners, imbeciles etc. You could have found out how many other races participated in this trial & what other trials mankind has been involved in. If you can seek first the answers to the questions you posed, you could be a person to help science and mankind. You deliberately choose to be semi informed or politicized the topic perhaps a sign of general laziness among our people. But that way you poison the channels of development. To create an aircraft, people died. People of Mazabuka are heroes who should not be trashed as illiterate poor.
@HIV for Blacks?
To create an aircraft, mostly the developers themselves died.
Did the ‘other races who participated in this trial’ lived for example in the US, the UK?
Do you really think a trial like this would occur in those parts of the world if they couldn’t guarantee a relative great effectiveness?
The psychological effect of a trial like this: If you think you are safe you will act as if you’re safe. Thinking that the Zambian government would never have approved a trial like this if the product wasn’t safe, maybe the women took greater risks as they would have done without this gel.
Rats also help science and mankind. Do you also see rats in a laboratory as ‘heroes’?
The trial was for women – people of flesh and blood: those who take care of their spouses and family, who (will) have children.
Would you have risked your own life (or the life of your beloved daughter, mother, niece)? [In case you’re a man], would you marry one of these ‘heroes’ and have children with her?
The women who became positive in this trial will bear the effects of this questionable trial – for the rest of their lives.
The MP is making statements that will not help the progress of science in Zambia. He is thinking with his heart and not his brain. He is a legislator and should be able to bring about laws that will protect life and at the same time advance science. This is what happens when we have ‘small minded’ scientists and doctors who are under pressure to publish and enhance their c.v.s! We need robust medical ethics committees with good researchers who can ask the right qestions. The govt. must set up an inquiry into this so that we learn from the mistakes. Disasters in medical research can happen but something must be in place to compesate the volunteering victims!
I want to strongly agree with GN for his stance. Whatever we do, we need to protect the people, this study should have ben stopped way before its end like they did in Uganda, Kenya and Asia. Zambians dont be cheated. Microbicides should be conducted elsewhere not here!!!
Ba LT, what has that Bus entering Mazabuka ‘Town centre’ got to do with this story?? is it carrying women for more trials??
The MP and the government were aware of what was going on!im from mazabuka and i know exactly what im talking about!the shouldn’t say they were ignorant of the matter! these trials where done on poor ignorant people who probably didn’t understand exactly what was going on!the government deliberately killed those people by allowing the trials to conducted.The whole thing is just sickening, What a government we have, to hell with it!
#18 chicago city, you sound like a headless person who can’t differentiate between MMD and MDP, why should people march to lusaka when they have a UPND MP who “didnot know about the project”?..i donot know how you found yourself in chcago city,,,anyway maybe you went to the states to wash dishes..get a real life my boy!
#30 HIV for Blacks.. my friend i suggest you read the Book called THE RIVER by Edward Hoopie (or Hoopa sometime like that),,,then you know about the orgins of AIDS…you understand the evil intentions behind the disease!..’They’ will control weaker nations use this disease
HIV for Blacks, GET AN AIDUCATION
Too bad for the affectetd individuals and families.People of Zambia get the words of the.In the first place those ladies accepted the offer. of course they did that thru sexual immorality which is forbiden in the bible as Zambia is a Christian nation.Why dd they accept to do sexual immorality?Too bad but GOD is love and will forgive them of their sins if they repent.