1. A cure at any cost?
- Author
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Greco, Dirceu
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MEDICAL ethics , *HIV , *CLINICAL trials & ethics , *PATIENTS , *CARING ,DEVELOPING countries - Abstract
Discusses an editorial in 'The New England Journal of Medicine,' in which Marcia Angell questioned the ethics of a study in Uganda that monitored, and failed to treat, several hundred HIV-positive people. Urgent need for drugs and vaccines which fuel such clinical trials; Ethical conduct guidelines set forth in the Helsinki Declaration; Discrimination between patients in industrialized and developing countries due to economic considerations.
- Published
- 2000