BBC News - Pfizer: Nigeria drug trial victims get compensation: "In 1996, 11 children died and dozens were left disabled after Pfizer gave them the experimental anti-meningitis drug, Trovan.
The payouts were made to the parents of four of the children who died.
Their parents told the BBC they welcomed the payment, but it would not replace the loss of their loved ones.
The children were part of a group of 200 given the drug during a meningitis epidemic in the northern city of Kano as part of a medical trial comparing Trovan's effectiveness with the established treatment.
For years Pfizer maintained that meningitis - not the drug - caused the deaths and disabilities."
Friday, August 12, 2011
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