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Ethics
Working Core
HPTN
Ethics Guidance
Partnering for
Care
Human
Subject Protection Resources
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HPTN Ethics Core
Overview
The Ethics Core is a resource for the HPTN
regarding the ethical aspects of research. The Core engages
representatives from diverse fields, areas of expertise, and geographic
regions. These representatives include ethicists, social scientists,
HPTN investigators, community working group members, and other Network
members as well as experts in conducting research with vulnerable women,
adolescents, sex workers, and drug user populations.
Specific
Aims
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To provide ethics review of concepts
and protocols in development |
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To provide
expertise and technical assistance to the HPTN in implementing
components of the Ethics Guidance for Research, including,
for example, research ethics training and capacity building (for
research teams, sites, and community groups) and improving the
informed consent process |
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To be available to
rigorously evaluate these efforts, working with the Behavioral and
Social Sciences Working Group as appropriate, including descriptive
data collection and ethics effectiveness assessments |
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To serve as a
resource for information and material that facilitates ethical
research practices, which may include serving as a liaison with
other entities/networks conducting HIV prevention research |
Publications/Presentations
Published
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MacQueen
KM, Sugarman J. Back to the Rough Ground: Working in International HIV
Prevention Research as Ethical Debates Continue. IRB: Ethics and Human Research
no. 2 (2003): 11-13.
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Lo B, Bayer R.
AIDS Clinical and Prevention Trials and Global Inequality: Toward an Ethics of
Partnership.
BM BMJ. 2003, 327: 337-9.
Presentations
MacQueen KM. Introduction to Research Ethics and the HPTN
Ethics Guidance Document. Presented
at the HPTN Regional Community Training for Americas and Russia Sites;
Philadelphia, PA. October 1 – 4, 2002.
Abdool
Karim Q. Ethical challenges in the conduct of HIV prevention
research in resource constrained settings. XIVth International
AIDS Conference, Barcelona, July 2002.
Benatar, S.
Ethical Challenges of HPTN Trials.
Presented at the 2nd Annual HPTN Meeting,
Washington, DC. February 20 – 22, 2002.
Ethics Core Contacts
Jeremy Sugarman, Chair, Johns Hopkins University, Phoebe R. Berman
Bioethics Institute and Department of Medicine
Alexis Amsterdam, Family Health International |
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