Community participation in AIDS vaccine trials: Empowerment or science?

Leslie Swartz and Ashraf Kagee

Social Science & Medicine, 2006, vol. 63, issue 5, 1143-1146

Abstract: For future AIDS vaccines to be successfully tested and implemented, extensive participation in vaccine trials will be necessary. Central to the challenges associated with such participation is concern for protection of participant wellbeing. This short report examines the tension that is sometimes found between the pragmatic need for recruitment into trials, and a more general social good concerning community participation in health. Community empowerment and trial participation are sometimes assumed to go hand in hand, but are potentially contradictory. Recognizing the possible disjunction between empowerment and trial participation allows for clearer discussion of and planning for ethical, scientifically valid trials.

Keywords: Aids; vaccines; Clinical; trials; Participation; Empowerment; Public; understanding; of; science (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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