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Feature Informed Consent

WHO’s malaria vaccine study represents a “serious breach of international ethical standards”

BMJ 2020; 368 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.m734 (Published 26 February 2020) Cite this as: BMJ 2020;368:m734

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Rapid Response:

Petition demanding WHO respond to ethical problems with its malaria vaccine study

A new petition is calling on the World Health Organization to respond to ethical problems with its malaria vaccine study.

Petition link: https://www.change.org/p/oms-exigez-le-respect-des-lois-%C3%A9thiques-de...

Short URL: https://tinyurl.com/WHO-petition

The bilingual French-English petition was launched by Dr. Jérôme Munyangi on April 6 and has garnered over 8,000 signatures thus far.

Competing interests: I authored the article that the WHO has criticized. See https://www.bmj.com/about-bmj/editorial-staff/peter-doshi for a general statement of competing interests.

09 April 2020
Peter Doshi
Associate editor
The BMJ
Baltimore, MD, USA