Project Summary
Ethics Capacity Building In Haiti
May 2006 - May 2008
Principal Investigator: Karen J. Maschke
GHESKIO Project Staff: Jean William Pape, Daniel Fitzgerald
Funder: The John E. Fogarty International Center for Advanced Study in the Health Sciences
Purpose
To assist medical college faculty in developing curriculum for an ethics course in a public health degree program and to provide ethics consultation to the GHESKIO institutional review board, researchers, health care policy makers and others on ethical issues surrounding HIV services and research with adolescents.
Key Issues
Difficult ethical issues have emerged in Haiti and other resource constrained countries concerning HIV clinical trials and post-trial access to HIV treatments.
Researchers, physicians, nurses, and others need to be conversant with international bioethics discourse in order to develop ethics capacity in their country.
Institutional review board and community advisory board members need educational resources and training to enhance their capacity to review research protocols, protect research participants, and respond to ethical issues surrounding adolescent participation in HIV research.
Physicians, nurses, community leaders, and health care policy-makers need conceptual and problem solving tools to address the difficult ethical challenges of providing adolescents with access to HIV treatment and prevention services.
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