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HIV preventive vaccine trials in developing countries examined

Published in Vaccine Weekly, April 6th, 2005

Researchers examine HIV preventive vaccine trials in developing countries in a recent issue of Social Science and Medicine.

According to recent research from South Africa, "HIV treatment for participants who become infected during HIV vaccine trials has been the focus of ethical controversy. The obligations of sponsors to ensure that participants have access to anti-retrovirals have been a particular focus of this debate. This paper presents three arguments that have been made in this regard, and some of their limitations, in anticipation of HIV vaccine trials in South Africa. The first argument is that HIV risk behavior increases in such trials, and HIV...

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