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Finding Your Way: A guide to understanding ethical issues related to preventive HIV vaccine clinical trial participation
AVAC and the International Council of AIDS Service Organizations (ICASO) developed Finding Your Way as part of the International Council of AIDS Service Organizations' (ICASO) series of HIV vaccine primers for communities.
This guide will provide you an introduction to the ethical principles raised in preventive HIV vaccine research and development, and examples of some of the actions taken to honor those principles. Other primers in the ICASO series address HIV vaccine science and community involvement, and are available at http://www.icaso.org/vaccines.htm.
The goals of Finding Your Way are to:
- Introduce you to the basic principles of ethical human subject research;
- Highlight critical ethical issues that clinical trial volunteers may face in preventive HIV vaccine research and development;
- Provide a starting point for community dialogue about ethics and HIV vaccine research and development;
- Serve as a reference for other useful information about ethics and HIV vaccine research and development.
This guide is not designed to provide you with solutions to ethical issues raised in HIV vaccine research and development. It is important to take into consideration the specific details of any given trial, trial site, trial sponsor, community or country involved in your situation. There are other excellent resources that can provide additional information on related topics, and they are included in the resource section at the end.
Click here to view the PDF of the full report
To order a printed version, please send an e-mail to avac@avac.org
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