PHM-Exch> Pfizer tactics revealed in Wikileaks cable

[Claudio Schuftan]

From: David Legge <D.Legge at latrobe.edu.au>


In the midst of a meningitis epidemic in 1996 in Northern Nigeria Pfizer set
up a trial of trovafloxacin (Trovan).  See Wikipedia account of this
controversy <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trovafloxacin>.



Now fast forward to:

Sarah Boseley (The Guardian, 2010_1209) WikiLeaks cables: Pfizer 'used dirty
tricks to avoid clinical trial
payout'<http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/dec/09/wikileaks-cables-pfizer-nigeria?INTCMP=SRCH>.
Cables say drug giant hired investigators to find evidence of corruption on
Nigerian attorney general to persuade him to drop legal action



Reuters (Friday Dec 10, 2010) WikiLeaks cables: Pfizer took aim at Nigeria
Attorney General <http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6B93DF20101210>



Now read the original US embassy cable (2009_0420, on Guardian website): Pfizer
nears $75m Nigeria
settlement<http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/us-embassy-cables-documents/203205?INTCMP=SRCH>



Activists might wish to bookmark these URLs.
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