North-South research partnerships: the ethics of carrying out research in developing countries

BMJ 1999;319:438-441 ( 14 August )

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North-South research partnerships: the ethics of carrying out research in developing countries

Tessa Tan-Torres Edejer, medical officer/scientist.

Global Programme on Evidence for Health Policy, World Health Organisation, CH-1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland

tantorrest@who.ch

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The new phase of North-South research collaboration was caught in a snapshot published recently in a popular weekly newsmagazine.¹The picture is that of a participant in an AIDS study in GuatemalaCity. He looks jaunty, even confident. In 1997, he participatedin a "life-and-death lottery," as the article is entitled, andbeat the odds to be entered into a Merck drug trial of differentdoses of a triple cocktail containing their new drug, Crixivan.He was one of only 59 patients who were lucky enough to be enteredinto a trial, among the many who join the "scramble for cuttingedge medications in a country where there aren't nearly enoughof them to go around." The clinic caring for him "takes up theslack $---$ for example, by enlisting its patients in drugstudies."

"I felt myself stabilizing [he said]. I had the energy to go back to work." However, his future, . . . [Full text of this article]

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