The aim of this book is to provide research ethics committee members with a resource that focuses on research ethics issues in Africa. The authors are currently active in various aspects of research ethics in Africa and the majority have been trained in the past by either the Fogarty International Center or Europe and Developing Countries Clinical Trial Partnership (EDCTP) sponsored bioethics training programmes.
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Table of contents
- Table of Contents
- Contributing Authors
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- PART I RESEARCH ETHICS IN AFRICA
- 1 Introduction
- 2 History of Research Ethics Review in Africa
- 3 MARC (Mapping African Research Ethics Review Capacity) Project
- PART II THE RESEARCH ETHICS COMMITTEE
- 4 The REC Meeting and REC Member Responsibilities
- 5 The REC Standard Operating Procedures in Africa
- 6 A Stepwise Approach to Protocol Review
- 7 Safety and Adverse Event Monitoring
- 8 On-going Monitoring of Research, Post REC Approval
- PART III SPECIFIC TOPICS
- 9 Informed Consent in an African Context
- 10 Risk-benefit Assessment
- 11 Clinical Trials
- 12 Research Vulnerability
- 13 Children as research subjects
- 14 Public Health Research Ethics
- 15 Traditional MedicineResearch: EthicalImplications in theConduct of African Traditional Medicine Research
- 16 Ethics Review of Socialand Behavioural Research in an African Context
- 17 Evaluating genetic and genomic research proposals in Africa
- 18 Payment of research participants
- 19 Community Engagement
- 20 Ancillary care in research
- PART IV RESOURCES
- 21 REC Review of Internationally Funded Research
- 22 Educational Resources For Research Ethics
- 23 A Self-Assessment Tool to Assess Operational Characteristics of Research Ethics Committees in Developing Countries
- PART V APPENDIX
- 24 Review Form
- 25 Informed Consent Template
- 26 Glossary