Doing Badly By Doing Good

摘要

For god's sake,why are we being attacked for a program that's actually produced results?" asks Pfizer Chairman Henry McKinnell, tensing to ramrod posture in his chair. McKinnell is defending Pfizer's seemingly generous program to give away its AIDS-related drug, Diflucan, to government clinics in South Africa. Pfizer intends to expand the free-drug program to 50 poor countries, which together have an estimated 12 million people infected with human immunodeficiency virus. Diflucan, an antifungal medicine, is used to treat devastating infections that commonly strike people infected with HIV. Worldwide Diflucan sales total $1 billion a year.