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Community participation in AIDS vaccine trials: Empowerment or science?

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  • Swartz, Leslie
  • Kagee, Ashraf

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For future AIDS vaccines to be successfully tested and implemented, extensive participation in vaccine trials will be necessary. Central to the challenges associated with such participation is concern for protection of participant wellbeing. This short report examines the tension that is sometimes found between the pragmatic need for recruitment into trials, and a more general social good concerning community participation in health. Community empowerment and trial participation are sometimes assumed to go hand in hand, but are potentially contradictory. Recognizing the possible disjunction between empowerment and trial participation allows for clearer discussion of and planning for ethical, scientifically valid trials.

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  • Swartz, Leslie & Kagee, Ashraf, 2006. "Community participation in AIDS vaccine trials: Empowerment or science?," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 63(5), pages 1143-1146, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:socmed:v:63:y:2006:i:5:p:1143-1146
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    1. Masunga K. Iseselo & Edith A. M. Tarimo & Eric Sandstrom & Asli Kulane, 2020. "Sexual Behaviours and Practices before and after Phase I/II HIV Vaccine Trial: A Qualitative Study among Volunteers in Dar es Salaam Tanzania," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 17(19), pages 1-20, October.

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