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Nigeria:
Pharmacutical Company Builds Centre to Compensate for Botched Trovan Trials
This Day, 8 November 2013
The Diagnostic and Disease Control Centre (DDCC), a specialist hospital build by Pfizer Pharmaceutical Company and valued at $25.5 million in Kano as a compensation for the 1996… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Trovan Vaccine Test - We're Still Negotiating Compensation With Pfizer - -Kwankwaso
Daily Trust, 12 May 2013
Dr Rabi'u Musa Kwankwaso is the executive governor of Kano State. In chance meeting interaction, he spoke on some of the recent developments in the state, his future in politics… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Roots of Polio Vaccine Suspicion
UNIRIN, 4 April 2013
For years, polio vaccination has faced strong resistance among conservative Islamic communities in northern Nigerian communities, largely due to a deep distrust of the West,… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Kano to Convert Pfizer Diagnostic Centre to Teaching Hospital
Daily Trust, 4 August 2012
Kano State government plans to convert the diagnostic center constructed by Pfizer Incorporated, as part of the settlement agreement reached with the company over the Kano Trovan… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Pfizer VS Kano Trovan Victims - U.S.$75 Million Settlement Exposed
Leadership, 5 December 2011
The protracted struggle for justice for 192 victims who were severely affected by the Trovan vaccine trials conducted by Pfizer in Kano has continued to rage on, fifteen years… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Still No Compensation for Trovan Victims As Pfizer Cuts Corners
This Day, 23 October 2011
Fifteen years after the disastrous Pfizer Trovan test trail and after an out-of-court settlement reached last year, in which the US pharmaceutical firm agreed to pay $35 million as… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Pfizer - Fresh Legal Battle Looms
Daily Trust, 12 September 2011
Fresh legal row between 192 victims of the 1996 Kano trovan clinical trial and the board of trustees charged with determining the real victims for payment is now building up as the… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Pfizer - Trovan Drug Victims Threaten Court Action Over DNA Test
This Day, 12 September 2011
Victims of the 1996 trovan drug test in Kano state have threatened to drag Pfizer Incorporated to court if it failed to release the results of the DNA screening conducted earlier… Read more »