Pfizer’s Drug-Testing Strategy In Nigeria

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As we age and the population is constantly change, we the people are more effectuated to our health especially as the technology and social media are the new living standards. As the standard are chaning the, pharmaceutical companies play a significant role in promoting good health. If we are governed to obi by rules and regulation, then it necessary for the Pharmaceutical companies to live up ethical principles and corporate social responsibilities. Although, we tend to turn the blind eye there is tons of violations in pharmaceutical industry that money continues to cover up. This will lead us into a case where, Pfizer failed to keep its commitment to corporate social responsibility as one of the most successful pharmaceutical companies, the choice they made to choose to bear unethical behavior in 1996. “Given the risks and costs of developing a new drug, pharmaceutical companies will jump at oppor- tunities to reduce them, and Pfizer thought it saw one” (Hill, pg 139, 2011). The case in point is the event that Pfizer gave its novel antibiotic “Trovan” to allegedly sick children without the consent of the parents when there was a serious outbreak of meningitis in Kano Nigeria. Pfizer’s choose the risk route and chose to ignore the children’s personal safety in testing. For personal gain and envious reason, this is was a violation of commercial ethics. It is claimed that Pfizer outbreak in Nigeria in urgent need of medical treatment cases on others' insecurity, regardless of the consequences to test new drugs, the loss of basic medical ethics, the law violations the United Nations the relevant provisions of the Convention on Human Rights (Xia, 2006). Therefore, the essay discusses the unethical behavior of Pfizer’s drug testing in Nigeria. It is described that the event of Pfizer’s drug testing that the meningitis is outbreak in Africa in 1996. After the

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