Following the polemic over the French doctor, it still surprises me that African people are so ignorant over the continual debasement of their people by global Pharma companies. Equally, how little Nigerians know of crimes that have occurred in the past. Ask them about Soapy or one tiny waist actress - they will tell you everything. Read our history below...

The parents of four Nigerian children who died of meningitis have become the first winners of a 15-year legal battle against Pfizer over a fiercely controversial drug trial.

The world's biggest research-based pharmaceutical company announced on Thursday that it had made payments of $175,000 (£108,000) to each family. More such compensation settlements are expected to follow.

Pfizer was sued after 11 children died in a clinical trial when the northern state of Kano was hit by Africa's worst ever meningitis epidemic in 1996. A hundred children were given an experimental oral antibiotic called Trovan, while a further hundred received ceftriaxone, the "gold-standard" treatment of modern medicine.

Five children died on Trovan and six on ceftriaxone. But later it was claimed that Pfizer did not have proper consent from parents to use an experimental drug on their children and questions were raised over the documentation of the trial.

Legal action filed against the company alleged that some received a dose lower than recommended, leaving many children with brain damage, paralysis or slurred speech.

US-based Pfizer had argued that meningitis and not its antibiotic had led to the deaths of 11 children and harm to dozens of others. But in 2009 it reached a tentative out-of-court settlement with the Kano state government worth $75m.

The families of four of the children each collected cheques for $175,000 from a compensation trust fund, after submitting DNA samples to show that the dead were their offspring.

The compensation was the first given out by the Healthcare/Meningitis Trust Fund. The decision over who is compensated and for how much is being managed by an independent board of trustees in Kano, not by the government or Pfizer, the company has said. "We are pleased that these four individuals, the first group of qualified claimants of the Healthcare/Meningitis Trust Fund, have received compensation," said a spokesman.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/aug/11/pfizer-nigeria-meningitis-drug-compensation

wow

But a vaccine dat worked was eventually created and is now in use abi There was nothing wrong with running trials or testing drugs, d only thing wrong is when there isnt full disclosure as to what side effects and worst case scenario could b and if d necessary consent is given... Let's all stop being sentimental about the whole vaccine issue

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But a vaccine dat worked was eventually created and is now in use abi There was nothing wrong with running trials or testing drugs, d only thing wrong is when there isnt full disclosure as to what side effects and worst case scenario could b and if d necessary consent is given... Let's all stop being sentimental about the whole vaccine issue

Not sure what you are saying...death is not a side effect.