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Ethics of Botswana AIDS vaccine trials not assured, group says

Published in AIDS Weekly, September 8th, 2003

A Botswana human rights organization has criticized the government for not passing legislation protecting people participating in HIV/AIDS vaccine trials.

Alice Mogwe, director of the Botswana Center for Human Rights, said there was little legal protection for trial participants and that the board set up to ensure safe, humane trials had no legal standing.

Experimental vaccine trials by the Botswana Harvard AIDS Partnership for HIV Research and Education began earlier this year after successful tests on animals.

The study is scheduled to last 18 months and will involve 42 HIV-negative volunteers from Botswana and the United...

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Source: AIDS Weekly (2003-09-08)

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