Pfizer Illegally Tested Unapproved Drug On Children In Nigeria

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Sun May-07-06 10:40 AM
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Pfizer Illegally Tested Unapproved Drug On Children In Nigeria

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/healthnews.php?newsid=42922

During an epidemic in Nigeria in 1996, Pfizer illegally tested an unapproved drug on children with brain infections, says a panel of Nigerian medical experts. According to the report, published in the Sunday (today) edition of the Washington Post, this violated international law. The report was completed five years ago, but never came out in the open.

According to the report, the Nigerian government had not authorised Pfizer to administer Trovan, the unauthorized drug, on 100 children. Trovan was administered to children and babies in Kano, Nigeria. Trovan was an experimental antibiotic drug.

According to the report, three laws were violated:

1. Nigerian Law
2. The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
3. The International Declaration of Helsinki related to medical research

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MountainLaurel

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Sun May-07-06 10:49 AM
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1. Also was a WashPost article today

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/06/AR2006050601338.html

Wasn't the movie "The Constant Gardener" all about a situation such as this?

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Kindigger

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Sun May-07-06 11:39 AM
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3. Just saw that movie this past week

Yep, quicker to test drugs on people who don't matter.

BTW Great movie!

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MountainLaurel

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Sun May-07-06 12:10 PM
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4. Unfortunately, this is nothing new

From the syphilis experiments to Holmesburg prison to institutionalized children being fed radioactive oatmeal.

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Sun May-07-06 11:13 AM
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2. Off topic, but this atrocity represents for me the general attitude of

Edited on Sun May-07-06 11:13 AM by higher class

PNAC, the barons, and corporatations against other people. Reading this reminded me of a fleeting statement from Geroge Bush about Africans acting as world soldiers - I can't remember the precise phrasing. Reading it - only one throught entered my head - Africans are dispensible.

It is obvious that certain people in the U.S. and, by association - corporate stockholders, have contempt for people in this world.

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MercutioATC

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Sun May-07-06 04:47 PM
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5. I thought that's what poor black children were for...

:sarcasm:

It wouldn't be the first time a drug company used impoverished minorities (well, I suppose they're not a minority in Nigeria, but you get my drift) to do human clinical trials.

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