[Health Ethics in Benin and HIV-AIDS : What are the stakes]

As part of the fight against HIV-AIDS, an effort was made at the ethical component, namely that there are legal texts, institutional and ethical. There are ethics committees (three) that give reasoned opinions on study protocols and are endeavoring to raise awareness of the actors. But we note that there is not yet a real ownership and adoption of ethical practice by them. This study targeted research projects on HIV-AIDS and centers supported PLHIV in order to analyze ethical issues : 1) the method of recruitment of participants and beneficiaries ; 2) obtaining informed consent from them ; 2) measures of confidentiality and anonymity ; 3) the integrity of staff of these projects and centers and conflicts of interest. A thematic analysis of data collected, which is done, after semi-structured interviews, helped to highlight the issues related to the recruitment process, obtaining informed consent, confidentiality measures and anonymity, integrity and Conflict of Interest. Let us remember that what is done, not done yet in the forms of art. Constant monitoring is called for, as leaders with ethics committees.They are supposed to play fully their roles.