Pfizer failure to keep up with Ethics in Africa

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/06/AR2006050601338_pf.html
The modern world based on science and the individualism of liberalism has traveled across the border. Sometimes it does come with good or bad things. Nigerian government report found out that Pfizer conducted unauthorized clinical trial on patients in Nigeria. Pfizer was found out to have violated the international declaration of Helsinki that governs ethical medical research. According to reports that are reported five children died from the unapproved anti-biotic clinical trial. Trust has been seriously been shaken by this incident. This incident should raise an eyebrow for all the future pharmaceutical trials that are conducted in poor nations. Pharmaceutical companies should look for ways to contribute to the accurate scientific results without jeopardizing the lives of the poor. They should engage in responsible, accountable, and transparent business/science. The African governments should not be blindfolded just because they are gaining free medicine. They should know if a price is attached to these “free medicine”. They need to keep up integrity in their scientific panels that approve sensitive researches. Accountability should be the motto for stopping such things to ever happen again.