Changes to the law on consent in South Africa: Implications for school-based adolescent sexual and reproductive health research

BMC International Health and Human Rights

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Zuch, Melanie ^a   Mason Jones, Amanda J ^b   Mathews, Catherine ^b   Henley, Lesley ^b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT HEALTH; ARTICLE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; HUMAN DIGNITY; LAW; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PARENTAL CONSENT; PATIENT DECISION MAKING; PATIENT RIGHT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIVACY; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; RESEARCH ETHICS; SCHOOL; SEX; SEXUAL HEALTH; SEXUALITY; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 84859483449     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1472698X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-698X-12-3     Document Type: Article

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