HIV vaccine research and human rights: Examples from three countries planning efficacy trials

Health and Human Rights

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 38-58

  Beloqui, Jorge ^a   Chokevivat, Vichai ^b   Collins, Chris ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b Dept of Communic Disease Control ^*  (United States)

^c AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEALTHCARE; HIV; HUMAN RIGHTS; VACCINE RESEARCH;

ARTICLE; BIOMEDICAL AND BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; BRAZIL; COMPENSATION; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DRUG INDUSTRY; ECONOMICS; ETHICS; HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN RIGHTS; IMMUNIZATION; INJURY; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; METHODOLOGY; POLICY; PREVENTIVE MEDICINE; RESEARCH; RESEARCH SUBJECT; RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL JUSTICE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; THAILAND; VOLUNTARY WORKER;

BIOMEDICAL AND BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH;

BRAZIL; COMPENSATION AND REDRESS; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DRUG INDUSTRY; ECONOMICS; ETHICAL REVIEW; ETHICS; HIV SEROPOSITIVITY; HUMAN EXPERIMENTATION; HUMAN RIGHTS; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; INTERNATIONALITY; PREJUDICE; PREVENTIVE MEDICINE; PUBLIC POLICY; RESEARCH; RESEARCH DESIGN; RESEARCH SUBJECTS; RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL JUSTICE; STEREOTYPING; THAILAND; THERAPEUTIC HUMAN EXPERIMENTATION; VOLUNTARY WORKERS; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 0031855054     PISSN: 10790969     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/4065284     Document Type: Article

References (4)

1. In 1983, then Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Margaret Heckler, predicted development of a vaccine for AIDS within a few years.
2. Phase I trials are designed to test the safety of experimental products. Phase II trials typically test safety and immunogenicity. Phase III trials may involve several thousand participants and test safety and efficacy.
3. P. Lurie, M. Bishaw, M.A. Chesney, et al., "Ethical, Behavioral, and Social Aspects of HIV Vaccine Trials in Developing Countries," Journal of the American Medical Association 271(4) (1994):298.
4. The Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences in collaboration with the World Health Organization, International Ethical Guidelines for Biomedical Research Involving Human Subjects (Geneva, 1993), p. 36.