The Body Hunters: Testing New Drugs on the World`s Poorest Patients
About this book
In this exciting book, the author shows mnc pharma companies take advantage of poor medical facilities and huge demands for health care in asian, african, and south american countries to carry out trials of medicines which have not yet been passed by governments in developed countries the health risks of these medicines are not known, and poor patients in these countries are used as guinea pigs before medicines are considered safe for use by rich patients in richer countries this is a huge business in poor countries of the world, and poor people pay for medicine which harms their own bodies and benefits pharma companies the author discusses cases in india and zambia, and shows that the choice for many in these countries is either to be experimented upon, or die for lack of medicine