Status of national research bioethics committees in the WHO African region

BMC Medical Ethics

Volumn 6, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Kirigia, Joses M ^a,b   Wambebe, Charles ^a,b   Baba Moussa, Amido ^a,b  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^b International Biomedical Research in Africa   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE TEST; FOLLOW UP; POPULATION RESEARCH; PROFESSIONAL STANDARD; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESEARCH ETHICS; SOCIOECONOMICS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; EDUCATION; ETHICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

AFRICA; COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP; ETHICAL REVIEW; ETHICS COMMITTEES, RESEARCH; ETHICS, RESEARCH; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HUMAN EXPERIMENTATION; HUMANS; QUESTIONNAIRES; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 27744569768     PISSN: 14726939     EISSN: 14726939     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6939-6-10     Document Type: Article

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