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Article

21 May 2007

Author:
Saïd Aït-Hatrit, Afrik

Le Nigeria accuse Pfizer d’avoir utilisé des enfants malades comme cobayes

L’Etat nigérian de Kano a porté plainte...contre l’entreprise pharmaceutique Pfizer pour avoir, en 1996, "secrètement utilisé des enfants comme cobayes dans les tests d’un médicament"...sous le prétexte de l’aide humanitaire...Pfizer a effectué...de façon illégale l’essai clinique d’un médicament...sur 200 enfants atteints de méningite...11 enfants sont morts ...et de nombreux autres ont subi des séquelles...[un] rapport d’un comité d’experts nigérians...jamais rendu public...recommandait que Pfizer soit "sanctionné de manière appropriée", fasse des "excuses sans réserve", paye des indemnités ...En réponse, le géant pharmaceutique a publié...un communiqué dans lequel il "s’insurge contre [les] allégations récemment publiées"...[et] insiste sur le fait que l’opération a sauvé des vies...

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