Ethical issues in the NIMH Collaborative HIV/STD Prevention Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To develop decision rules regarding key ethical dimensions in scientific protocols for the National Institute for Mental Health (NIMH) Collaborative HIV/STD Prevention Trial taking place in five countries (China, India, Peru, Russia, and Zimbabwe).

Design

Countries had HIV rates from 27 to 0.1%, the standard of care varied from access to antiretroviral drugs to no availability, and the reporting of sexually transmitted diseases (STD) to government agencies was mandatory in some countries and not in others. These variations presented challenges when developing decision rules that could be uniformly adopted across countries and simultaneously follow the ethical principles of beneficence, respect, and justice.

Methods

We used several strategies to identify and

SUBMITTER: NIMH Collaborative HIV/STD Prevention Trial Group 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11616085 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature