Topic Resources

Pfizer Faces Criminal Charges in Nigeria May 31, 2007

2007 [Washington Post]: Officials in Nigeria have brought criminal charges against pharmaceutical giant Pfizer for the company's alleged role in the deaths of children who received an unapproved drug during a meningitis epidemic.

AIDS Drugs Work Well in Botswanna April 18, 2007

2007 [Harvard University Gazette]: Africa's first large-scale public program to distribute critical AIDS drugs to a developing nation is as successful as similar programs in industrialized countries, a Harvard School of Public Health study has shown, helping put to rest concerns that such programs can't work in developing nations.

Access to Essential Medicines April 04, 2007

2002 [Foreign Policy in Focus]: Combinations of available pharmaceuticals—too expensive for nearly all of the infected people in the developing world—could enable many afflicted with HIV/AIDS to live relatively normal lives.