Understanding Health Research Ethics in Nepal.

abstract：:Obtaining 'informed consent' from every individual participant involved in health research is a mandatory ethical practice. Informed consent is a process whereby potential participants are genuinely informed about their role, risk and rights before they are enrolled in the study. Thus, ethics committees in most countr...

journal_title：Developing world bioethics

authors： Regmi PR,Aryal N,Kurmi O,Pant PR,van Teijlingen E,Wasti SP

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many countries in Africa, and more generally those in the Global South with tropical areas, are plagued by illnesses that the wealthier parts of the world (mainly 'the West') neither suffer from nor put systematic effort into preventing, treating or curing. What does an ethic with a recognizably African pedigree entai...

journal_title：Developing world bioethics

authors： Metz T

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The impending implementation of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) has prompted complicated bioethical and public health ethics concerns regarding the moral distribution of antiretroviral medications (ARVs) to ostensibly healthy populations as a form of HIV prevention when millions of HIV-positive people still lack acces...

journal_title：Developing world bioethics

authors： Fiereck K

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The significance of animals in research cannot be over-emphasized. The use of animals for research and training in research centres, hospitals and schools is progressively increasing. Advances in biotechnology to improve animal productivity require animal research. Drugs being developed and new interventions or therap...

journal_title：Developing world bioethics

authors： Seth M,Saguti F

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article examines the relationship between bioethics and the therapeutic standards in HIV prevention research in the developing world, focusing on the closure of the pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) trials in the early 2000s. I situate the PrEP trials in the historical context of the vertical transmission debates o...

journal_title：Developing world bioethics

authors： Haire BG

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Bene Israel is a Jewish community in western India whose origins are unknown from conventional sources. This paper discusses a genetic ancestry study that mapped Bene Israel genealogies and the impact of the study on the Bene Israel. ...

journal_title：Developing world bioethics

authors： Parfitt T

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four key guidance points in the UNAIDS guidance document, Ethical Considerations in HIV Preventive Vaccine Research, are compared with analogous statements in three other recently issued documents dealing with international research. Those documents are: the Declaration of Helsinki, as revised in 2000; the report of t...

journal_title：Developing world bioethics

authors： Macklin R

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Psychiatric genetic research investigates the genetic basis of psychiatric disorders with the aim of more effectively understanding, treating, or, ultimately, preventing such disorders. Given the challenges of recruiting research participants into such studies, the potential for long-term benefits of such research, an...

journal_title：Developing world bioethics

authors： Palk AC,Bitta M,Kamaara E,Stein DJ,Singh I

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inequities in global health are increasingly of interest to health care providers in developed countries. In response, many academic healthcare programs have begun to offer international service learning programs. Participants in these programs are motivated by ethical principles, but this type of work presents signif...

journal_title：Developing world bioethics

authors： Reisch RA

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study is to determine how stakeholder engagement can be adapted for the conduct of COVID-19-related clinical trials in sub-Saharan Africa. Nine essential stakeholder engagement practices were reviewed: formative research; stakeholder engagement plan; communications and issues management plan; protocol ...

journal_title：Developing world bioethics

authors： Folayan MO,Brown B,Haire B,Babalola CP,Ndembi N

更新日期：2020-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Research is a global enterprise requiring participation of both genders for generalizable knowledge; advancement of science and evidence based medical treatment. Participation of women in research is necessary to reduce the current bias that most empirical evidence is obtained from studies with men to inform health ca...

journal_title：Developing world bioethics

authors： Princewill CW,Jegede AS,Nordström K,Lanre-Abass B,Elger BS

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Currently, health systems research (HSR) is reviewed by the same ethical standards as clinical research, which has recently been argued in the literature to be an inappropriate standard of evaluation. The issues unique to HSR warrant a different review by research ethics committees (RECs), as it does not impose the sa...

journal_title：Developing world bioethics

authors： Bachani AM,Rattani A,Hyder AA

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One effect of late capitalism--the commodification of practically everything--is to knock down the Chinese walls between the natural and productive realms, to use a Marxist framework. Women's labour in egg extraction and 'surrogate' motherhood might then be seen as what it is, labour which produces something of value....

journal_title：Developing world bioethics

authors： Dickenson D

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The principle of informed refusal poses a specific problem when it is invoked by a pregnant woman who, in spite of having accepted her pregnancy, refuses the diagnostic and/or therapeutic measures that would ensure the well-being of her endangered fetus. Guidelines issued by professional bodies in the developed world ...

journal_title：Developing world bioethics

authors： van Bogaert LJ

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is little published literature on the ethical concerns of stakeholders in HIV vaccine trials. This study explored the ethical challenges identified by various stakeholders, through an open-ended, in-depth approach. While the few previous studies have been largely quantitative, respondents in this study had the o...

journal_title：Developing world bioethics

authors： Essack Z,Koen J,Barsdorf N,Slack C,Quayle M,Milford C,Lindegger G,Ranchod C,Mukuka R

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:I give an account how the principle of 'respect for autonomy' dominates the field of bioethics, and how it came to triumph over its competitors, 'respect for persons' and 'respect for free power of choice'. I argue that 'respect for autonomy' is unsatisfactory as a basic principle of bioethics because it is grounded i...

journal_title：Developing world bioethics

authors： Behrens KG

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper seeks to highlight the benefits of prioritizing moderate African communitarian principles as partly demonstrated in the HIV prevention strategies implemented in Uganda in the late 1980s. Pertinent lessons could be drawn so as to achieve the HIV prevention targets envisioned in the post-2015 development era....

journal_title：Developing world bioethics

authors： Wathuta J

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kidney transplantation is a lifesaving medical treatment. However, very high demand for kidneys with low kidney donation causes a black market that exploits patients' desperation and donors' vulnerability. The current kidney donation programs fail to produce promising results to avoid illegal and unethical kidney traf...

journal_title：Developing world bioethics

authors： Avci E

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Explaining technical terms in consent forms prior to seeking informed consent to recruit into trials can be challenging in developing countries, and more so when the studies are randomized controlled trials. This study was carried out to examine the opinions of researchers on ways of dealing with these chall...

journal_title：Developing world bioethics

authors： Newton SK,Appiah-Poku J

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper examines the ethical considerations in a case of a 12-year-old girl seeking an abortion in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala in early 2020. The physician denied the girl care and did not refer her to a qualified provider, citing the illegality of such actions. Though abortion is illegal in Guatemala, enforcement of...

journal_title：Developing world bioethics

authors： Altshuler E

更新日期：2020-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Due to the financial pressure caused by cutbacks in funding and the race to achieve higher university rankings, researchers are competing for limited funds. These funds enable researchers to contribute to the scientific enterprise and to secure better positions. Given this pressure, there is a need to understand how a...

journal_title：Developing world bioethics

authors： Olesen AP,Amin L,Mahadi Z,Ibrahim M

更新日期：2020-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：:In the context of clinical and non-clinical biomedical practices, negligence is usually understood as a lapse of a specific professional duty by a healthcare worker or by a medical facility. This paper tries to delineate systemic negligence as another kind of negligence in the context of health systems, particularly i...

journal_title：Developing world bioethics

authors： Chakraborti C

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The latest (June 2005) draft of UNESCO's proposed Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights is a major disappointment. The committee of government 'experts' that produced it made sure that it would not introduce any new obligations for States, and so the document simply restates existing agreements and lists...

journal_title：Developing world bioethics

authors： Williams JR

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This article describes the types of community-wide benefits provided by investigators conducting public health research in South Asia as well as their self-reported reasons for providing such benefits. METHODS:We conducted 52 in-depth interviews to explore how public health investigators in low-resource set...

journal_title：Developing world bioethics

authors： Taylor HA,Merritt MW

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Given its intimate relationship with the human body and its environment, biotechnology innovation, and more particularly stem cell research innovations as a part thereof, implicate diverse social and moral/ethical issues. This paper explores some of the most important and controversial moral concerns raised by human e...

journal_title：Developing world bioethics

authors： Harmon SH

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Medical AID organisations such as Médecins Sans Frontières receive several requests from individuals and international academic institutions to conduct research at their implementation sites in Africa. Do AID agencies have an ethical duty to comply with research requests? In this paper we respond to the views and cons...

journal_title：Developing world bioethics

authors： Zachariah R,Janssens V,Ford N

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the development of assisted reproductive technologies, infertile individuals have crossed borders to obtain treatments unavailable or unaffordable in their own country. Recent media coverage has focused on the outsourcing of surrogacy to developing countries, where the cost for surrogacy is significantly less th...

journal_title：Developing world bioethics

authors： Humbyrd C

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Research ethics training during post-graduate education is necessary to improve ethical standards in the design and conduct of biomedical research. We studied quality and quantity of research ethics training in the curricula of post-graduate programs in the medical science in I.R. Iran. We evaluated curricula of 125 p...

journal_title：Developing world bioethics

authors： Nikravanfard N,Khorasanizadeh F,Zendehdel K

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This summary lays out the basic science and methodology used in genetic testing that investigates historical population migrations and the ancestry of living individuals. The genetic markers used in this testing, and the distinction between Y-chromosome, mitochondrial and autosomes analysis, are explained and the shor...

journal_title：Developing world bioethics

authors： Johnston J,Thomas M

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stem cell tourism is a small but growing part of the thriving global medical tourism marketplace. Much stem cell research remains at the experimental stage, with clinical trials still uncommon. However, there are over 700 clinics estimated to be operating in mostly developing countries--from Costa Rica and Argentina t...

journal_title：Developing world bioethics

authors： Einsiedel EF,Adamson H

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00