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| Title |
Microbicide research in developing countries: have we given the ethical concerns due consideration?
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Medical Ethics, September 2007
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| DOI | 10.1186/1472-6939-8-10 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Keymanthri Moodley |
| Abstract |
HIV prevention research has been fraught with ethical concerns since its inception. These concerns were highlighted during HIV vaccine research and have been elaborated in microbicide research. A host of unique ethical concerns pervade the microbicide research process from trial design to post-trial microbicide availability. Given the urgency of research and development in the face of the devastating HIV pandemic, these ethical concerns represent an enormous challenge for investigators, sponsors and Research Ethics Committees (RECs) both locally and internationally. |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 133 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 4 | 3% |
| South Africa | 1 | <1% |
| Australia | 1 | <1% |
| Canada | 1 | <1% |
| Sierra Leone | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 125 | 94% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 23 | 17% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 22 | 17% |
| Researcher | 16 | 12% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 10 | 8% |
| Unspecified | 9 | 7% |
| Other | 30 | 23% |
| Unknown | 23 | 17% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 36 | 27% |
| Social Sciences | 21 | 16% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 9 | 7% |
| Unspecified | 9 | 7% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 8 | 6% |
| Other | 22 | 17% |
| Unknown | 28 | 21% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 88. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 31 January 2023.
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