Addressing epistemic injustice in HIV research: a call for reporting guidelines on meaningful community engagement.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Despite the widely recognized ethical and practical benefits of community engagement in HIV research, epistemic injustice persists within the field. Namely, the knowledge held by communities disproportionately affected by HIV is systematically afforded less credibility than that of more privileged academic researchers. In order to illustrate what this looks like in practice, we synthesized the extent of reporting on community engagement within recent high-impact HIV intervention research papers. However, we also posit that the HIV research sector has the potential to devise and showcase world-leading examples of equitable research-community partnerships and suggest actionable key steps to achieving this goal.

Discussion

In the absence of reporting requirements w

SUBMITTER: Pantelic M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8771147 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature