Aids activists ambush drugs boss

About 100 noisy Aids activists carrying mock corpses disrupted a speech by the head of Pfizer, accusing multi-national drug firms of denying lifesaving drugs to HIV sufferers by charging inflated prices.

The activists, carrying stuffed black plastic bags made to look like bodies, walked into a meeting room at the International Aids Conference in Bangkok minutes after Pfizer chief executive Hank McKinnell started speaking.