Incarnation Children's Center (ICC) is a nursing facility for children living withHIV inNew York City. From 1989 until 2000 the center operated as a foster care boarding home; since then it has concentrated on providing medical care. The ICC is anon-profit corporation affiliated with theArchdiocese of New York andColumbia University. From the late 1980s through 2005, foster children at the center withHIV/AIDS were enrolled on clinical trials ofantiretroviral medication, which was successful in reducing the death rate from AIDS.[1] In 2005, the center was the focus of "Guinea Pig Kids", aBBC documentary alleging ethical violations in these clinical trials.[1] The allegations prompted an investigation by theVera Institute of Justice, which concluded that no children had died as a result of the trials, but that the center had kept poor records and sometimes failed to follow its own enrollment policies.[2] Subsequently, the BBC apologized for "very serious issues" in "Guinea Pig Kids", and conceded that the documentary made misleading allegations and was biased toward the views ofAIDS denialists.[3][4]
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