Monday, April 06, 2009

Is the Trovan story finally over?

"Pfizer has reached a broad agreement to pay millions of dollars to Nigeria's Kano state to settle a criminal case alleging that the drug company illegally tested an experimental drug on gravely ill children during a 1996 meningitis epidemic," says The Washington Post. If the case is settled, it will end the story of one the most notorious cases of pharmaceutical industry exploitation of the developing world. (For background on the Trovan scandal, see this article.)

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