To What did They Consent? Understanding Consent Among Low Literacy Participants in a Microbicide Feasibility Study in Mazabuka, Zambia

Developing World Bioethics

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 248-256

  Munalula Nkandu, Esther ^a   Ndebele, Paul ^a   Siziya, Seter ^b   Munthali, J C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAMBIA   (Zambia)

^b Medical Research Council of Zimbabwe (MRCZ)   (Zimbabwe)

^c Department of Environmental and Plant Sciences   (Zambia)

Author keywords

Africa; Antiretroviral therapy; Consent; Developing world; HIV AIDS; Information supplied in informed consent; Informed consent

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DRUG THERAPY; ETHICS; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; INTERVIEW; INTRAVAGINAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LITERACY; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MIDDLE AGED; PRE-EXPOSURE PROPHYLAXIS; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PROCEDURES; STANDARDS; YOUNG ADULT; ZAMBIA;

ADMINISTRATION, INTRAVAGINAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; DRUG THERAPY; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFORMED CONSENT; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LITERACY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRE-EXPOSURE PROPHYLAXIS; YOUNG ADULT; ZAMBIA;

EID: 84946473045     PISSN: 14718731     EISSN: 14718847     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/dewb.12069     Document Type: Article

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