MOBILIZING A RESPONSE: ACHAP organizes community meetings for adults, and basketball games for children
Why would any drug company want to do business in Africa? To be a pharmaceutical giant on the continent is to be accused of discriminating against the poor, either by pricing medicine beyond their reach or by ignoring diseases that are endemic in poverty-stricken areas. It is also to invite suspicion of using Africans as guinea pigs in unsafe drug trials such allegations have led to ongoing lawsuits seeking more than $9 billion against Pfizer in Nigeria. (Pfizer says the allegations "are simply untrue" and is fighting the charges against a trial it calls "responsible and ethical.") And on a...
