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The panel calls for Ebola vaccine trials, despite the falling numbers of cases and despite acknowledging that definitive results will not be available.
Now perhaps Ms Gulland could cover the field trials and ascertain the procedure by which "volunteers " are recruited. Are there financial incentives to the recruiters? To the volunteers?
Any penalties for those who do not volunteer? Rewards for the volunteers?
Is the research protocol exactly the same as would be the case if the trial were taking place in, say, Edinburgh? Or, Exeter? Or, Rochester, Minnesota?
Competing interests:
A desire to see fair trials, be it in Africa or in Europe
Re: Clinical trials of Ebola vaccine must continue despite fall in number of cases
The panel calls for Ebola vaccine trials, despite the falling numbers of cases and despite acknowledging that definitive results will not be available.
Now perhaps Ms Gulland could cover the field trials and ascertain the procedure by which "volunteers " are recruited. Are there financial incentives to the recruiters? To the volunteers?
Any penalties for those who do not volunteer? Rewards for the volunteers?
Is the research protocol exactly the same as would be the case if the trial were taking place in, say, Edinburgh? Or, Exeter? Or, Rochester, Minnesota?
Competing interests: A desire to see fair trials, be it in Africa or in Europe