> If poor people were given preference in terms of going
    > on drug trials, would the same groups be up in arms
    > about the poor being used as guinea pigs for the rich?

From the NY Times:

    > What if the first doses of the drug — which had never
    > been used in people and had not even finished the
    > typical animal safety testing — had been given to
    > African patients instead?

    > “It would have been the front-page screaming headline: 
    > ‘Africans used as guinea pigs for American drug
    > company’s medicine,’ ” said Dr. Salim S. Abdool Karim,
    > director of Caprisa, an AIDS research center in South
    > Africa.

And also, while trying to refind this article:

https://www.google.com/search?tbm=nws&q=ebola+"Guinea+pigs"&...