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INNOVATIVE STRATEGIES FOR
STRENGTHENING HEALTH RESEARCH
CAPACITY BUILDING IN AFRICA THROUGH
“RESEARCH
PARTNERSHIPS ETHICS”
ICASA 2011: Addis Ababa, 03-08 December
Is there a moral obligation for
capacity development in
partnerships?
Godfrey B. Tangwa, PhD
Professor of Philosophy
University of Yaounde 1/Cameroon Bioethics Initiative (CAMBIN)
YES
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According to principlism:
Beneficence
Justice
Autonomy
According to International Regulations:
UNAIDS, CIOMS
WHO/UNAIDS GUIDANCE POINT 3
• Strategies should be implemented to build capacity in host
countries and communities so that they can practice
meaningful self-determination in vaccine development, can
ensure the scientific and ethical conduct of vaccine
development, and can function as equal partners with
sponsors and others in a collaborative process
• [Ethical Considerations in HIV Preventive Vaccine Research,
2007 ]
CIOMS International Guidelines for biomedical
research involving human subjects (2002)
Strengthening capacity for ethical and scientific review and biomedical
research Many countries lack the capacity to assess or ensure the scientific
quality or ethical acceptability of biomedical research proposed or carried
out in their jurisdictions. In externally sponsored collaborative research,
sponsors and investigators have an ethical obligation to ensure that
biomedical research projects for which they are responsible in such
countries contribute effectively to national or local capacity to design and
conduct biomedical research, and to provide scientific and ethical review
and monitoring of such research. Capacity-building may include, but is not
limited to, the following activities: establishing and strengthening
independent and competent ethical review processes/ committees
strengthening research capacity developing technologies appropriate to
health-care and biomedical research training of research and health-care
staff educating the community from which research subjects will be drawn
FAIR /EQUITABLE PARTNERSHIPS YIELD
HEALTHY FRUITS!
Thank you
Merci
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