Veterans are disheartened by a Senate inquiry into anti-malarial drug trials they say have left them with debilitating symptoms for nearly 20 years. Australian Defence Force personnel took quinoline drugs mefloquine and tafenoquine while deployed to Timor-Leste and Bougainville in Papua New Guinea between 1999 and 2002. A Senate inquiry this year heard from veterans […]
ABC News 31 July 2018 7.30 By Michael Atkin Veterans who believe their severe physical and mental health conditions were caused by anti-malaria medications given to them by the Army are hoping a senate inquiry will find enough evidence to back their claims. Almost 20 years ago more than 3,000 troops were given the experimental drug […]
SENATE FOREIGN AFFAIRS, DEFENCE AND TRADE REFERENCES COMMITTEE ADF use of Mefloquine and Tafenoquine On 19 June 2018 the Senate referred to the Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade References Committee a range of matters relating to the ADF use of Mefloquine and Tafenoquine for inquiry and report by 17 September 2018. The full terms of […]