Personal and community benefits and harms of research: Views from Rakai, Uganda

AIDS

Volumn 21, Issue 18, 2007, Pages 2493-2501

  Thiessen, Carrie ^a   Ssekubugu, Robert ^b   Wagman, Jennifer ^c   Kiddugavu, Mohammed ^b   Wawer, Maria J ^c   Emanuel, Ezekiel ^a   Gray, Ronald ^c   Serwadda, David ^d   Grady, Christine ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b UGANDA VIRUS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Uganda)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d MAKERERE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Uganda)

Author keywords

Clinical trials; Ethics; Human experimentation; Research; Risks and benefits

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY CARE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH HAZARD; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LEADERSHIP; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; MEDICAL SERVICE; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; RESIDENTIAL HOME; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; UGANDA;

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ETHICS, RESEARCH; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; REFUSAL TO PARTICIPATE; RESEARCH SUBJECTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; THERAPEUTIC HUMAN EXPERIMENTATION; UGANDA;

EID: 36349004701     PISSN: 02699370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/QAD.0b013e3282f029d3     Document Type: Article

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