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The ADF’s drug trial outrage

28 December 2016

9:20 AM

28 December 2016

9:20 AM

Box Lariam (mefloquine) antimalarial tabletsThe anti-malarial drug trial scandal that has embroiled the Australian Defence Force for the last two years simply won’t go away, despite the government’s best efforts to whitewash the controversy with a flawed “military justice” inquiry.

There are growing calls for a public inquiry to investigate ethical breaches which occurred during a series of Army Malaria Institute (AMI) clinical trials conducted in Bougainville and Timor Leste from 1999 to 2002.

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