The ethics of placebo-controlled trials in developing countries to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV

The ethics of placebo-controlled trials in developing countries to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV

Placebo-trials on HIV-infected pregnant women in developing countries like Thailand and Uganda have provoked recent controversy. Such experiments aim to find a treatment that will cut the rate of vertical transmission more efficiently than existing treatments like zidovudine. This scenario is first...

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Main Author: WILLIAMS, John N.
Format: text
Language:English
Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2000
Subjects:
Ethical principles
Placebo-trials
women
Thailand
Helsinki Declaration
Medicine and Health Sciences
Philosophy
Online Access:https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/2
https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/1001/viewcontent/WilliamsJEthicsPlaceboControlledTrials.pdf
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Institution: Singapore Management University
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