Addressing Ethical, Social, and Cultural Issues in Global Health Research

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Lavery, James V ^a,b   Green, Shane K ^b   Bandewar, Sunita V S ^b   Bhan, Anant ^b   Daar, Abdallah ^b   Emerson, Claudia I ^b   Masum, Hassan ^b   Randazzo, Filippo M ^c   Singh, Jerome A ^b,d   Upshur, Ross E G ^b,e   Singer, Peter A ^b  

^a ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c BILL AND MELINDA GATES FOUNDATION   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BCG VACCINE;

ARTICLE; ETHICS; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PUBLIC HEALTH; PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 84883442404     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0002227     Document Type: Article

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