Pfizer defends its "50 year" Nigerian record
This article was originally published in SRA
Executive Summary
Pfizer has defended its long history in Nigeria following the publication of the Wikileaks US embassy cable that showed the company in a less than a positive light when it allegedly tried to get the local authorities to drop legal suits around the 1996 trial of the antibiotic, Trovan (trovafloxacin), in which 11 children died1,2.