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Community based trials and informed consent in rural north India
A DeCosta1, N D'Souza, S Krishnan
1Department of Pharmacology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi 11029, India.
Journal of Medical Ethics
|June 3, 2004
Abstract:
Disease control has increasingly shifted towards large scale, disease specific, public health interventions. The emerging problems of HIV, hepatitis, malaria, typhoid, tuberculosis, childhood pneumonia, and meningitis have made community based trials of interventions a cost effective long term investment for the health of a population. The authors conducted this study to explore the complexities involved in obtaining informed consent to participation in rural north India, and how people there make decisions related to participation in clinical research.