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  2. Relf sisters - Wikipedia

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    The Relf sisters were involuntarily sterilized in 1973. In 1971, when Montgomery Community Action (MCA) moved the Relf family into public housing, the family planning service of MCA "began the unsolicited administration of experimental birth control injections", containing Depo-Provera, on Katie Relf, Minnie Lee and Mary Alice's older sister. [3]

  3. Unethical human experimentation - Wikipedia

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    In the late 20th century, Depo-Provera was clinically tested on Zimbabwean women. Once approved, the drug was used as a population control measure in the 1970s. Commercial farm owners put pressure on native women workers to accept the use of Depo-Provera. [79] Population control interests motivated many of the family planning programs.

  4. Medroxyprogesterone acetate - Wikipedia

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    DMPA, under brand names such as Depo-Provera and Depo-SubQ Provera 104, is used in hormonal birth control as a long-lasting progestogen-only injectable contraceptive to prevent pregnancy in women. [ 38 ] [ 39 ] It is given by intramuscular or subcutaneous injection and forms a long-lasting depot , from which it is slowly released over a period ...

  5. Medical experimentation in Africa - Wikipedia

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    Depo-Provera was clinically tested on black Rhodesian (now Zimbabwean) women in the 1970s. [1] Once approved, the drug was used as a birth control measure. Women on white-run commercial farms were coerced into accepting Depo-Provera. [5] In 1981, the drug was banned in what was by then Zimbabwe. [5]

  6. Sterilization of Native American women - Wikipedia

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    [12] [13] Depo-Provera was used on intellectually disabled Native American women before it gained clearance from the FDA in 1992. [14] Norplant, promoted by the IHS, was marketed by Wyeth Pharmaceuticals (who were sued over insufficient disclosure of side effects including irregular menstrual bleeding, headaches, nausea and depression). Side ...

  7. Prisoners of Profit - The Huffington Post

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    A 2010 lawsuit from the Southern Poverty Law Center referred to youth who described Thompson Academy as a “frightening and violent place” where juveniles were denied medical care when abused. “Children are choked and slammed head first into concrete walls, their arms and fingers are bent back and twisted to inflict pain for infractions as ...

  8. Elon Musk pay defeat sets up a 2025 legal battle that could ...

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    Tesla pledged to keep fighting for Elon Musk's $56 billion pay to be restored, a battle that could make it all the way to the highest US court.

  9. Combined injectable birth control - Wikipedia

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    CICs are different from progestogen-only injectable contraceptives (POICs), such as depot medroxyprogesterone acetate (DMPA; brand names Depo-Provera, Depo-SubQ Provera 104) and norethisterone enantate (NETE; brand name Noristerat), which are not combined with an estrogen and are given once every two to three months instead of once a month. [2]

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