Un-Informed Consent: The United Nation's Failure to Appropriately Police Clinical Trials in Developing Nations‪.‬

I. INTRODUCTION In 1996, Pfizer, Inc. (Pfizer) distributed an unapproved antibiotic to patients in a field hospital in Kano, Nigeria. (1) Many children suffered and died as a result of this trial, and Pfizer has endured severe criticism for its failure to properly register its clinical trial. (2) Pfizer is not the only member of the international pharmaceutical industry that has gone overseas to test experimental drugs. (3) Other large pharmaceutical companies have also gone abroad in search of less stringent regulations and lower costs. (4) This desire among companies to avoid regulation and lower costs has contributed to the globalization of drug testing. (5)