http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-14493277
US-based pharmaceutical giant Pfizer has made the first compensation payment to Nigerian families affected by a controversial drug trial 15 years ago.
In 1996, 11 children died and dozens were left disabled after Pfizer gave them the experimental anti-meningitis drug, Trovan.
For years Pfizer maintained that meningitis - not the drug - caused the deaths and disabilities.
But after a lengthy and expensive litigation process, it reached a settlement with the Kano government in northern Nigeria.
**Opinion**
Compensated!? Not that you can even put a dollar value on a person's life, but then an insulting less than a million dollars per victim?! For a pharmaceutical company such as Pfizer, SMH!
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