HPTN has a commitment to ethical research

The HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN) has the mission of conducting HIV prevention research at the highest scientific and ethical standards.  To meet this goal, the HPTN Ethics Working Group (EWG) works within the protocol development structure to ensure necessary attention and review to ethical aspects in the development process of HPTN concepts, protocols and manuscripts.

The EWG includes experts in the field of ethics of human subjects’ research as well as HPTU site staff who serve as a resource to protocol teams.  The EWG provides practical recommendations as well as state of the art information to protocol teams.  The EWG also provides guidelines and strategies for enhancement of ethics capacity at research sites, with a particular emphasis on the understanding of informed consent by potential participants.