the Westat audit confirmed the long inventory of severe violations of Good Clinical Practice, including—most disturbingly—the convenient “loss of critical records.”15 The missing records included a vital logbook that appeared to have documented the study’s worst atrocities before its mysterious disappearance. NIAID’s Uganda team told the Westat researchers that they had lost the critical log that, among other things, recorded all the adverse events and deaths. The remaining records didn’t report which mothers received which drugs or even whether they survived the study. The auditors reported a
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