Unift for Human Use.

This is the stuff that makes blood boil.

We've all see the movie 'Constant Gardener' and yes this really does happen. It caught my eye because it was Kano, Nigeria where my family lived for many years. But lets face it -- Africa as a continent is dealing with the world's bullshit in some way or the other. It just isn't OK.

From the WSJ a week ago:
Nigerian authorities have filed criminal charges and a civil lawsuit accusing Pfizer of illegally testing unapproved drugs on 200 children during a 1996 meningitis epidemic and doing so without their parents' permission.

Officials from Kano, Nigeria's largest state, charged the pharmaceutical giant with counts of criminal conspiracy and voluntarily causing grievous harm in the deaths of children who received the drug, and seek more than $2 billion in damages and restitution from Pfizer in the civil suit, the Washington Post reports. Pfizer denies all the charges. Its researchers are accused of selecting children and infants from a makeshift epidemic camp and giving an untested antibiotic called Trovan to about half, the Post says. The other half were given "a dangerously low dose of a comparison drug made by Hoffmann-La Roche," and "Nigerian officials say Pfizer's actions resulted in the deaths of an unspecified number of children and left others deaf, paralyzed, blind or brain-damaged,"

According to the lawsuit, the researchers didn't obtain consent from the children's families, parents were banned from the ward where their kids were being treated, and the researchers "knew Trovan to be an experimental drug with life-threatening side effects that was 'unfit for human use,'"

Of course no medical records were left in the country.