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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2000
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