Research Ethics in Africa : A Resource for Research Ethics Committees.

Intro -- Table of Contents -- Contributing Authors -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- PART I RESEARCH ETHICS IN AFRICA -- 1 Introduction -- 2 History of Research Ethics Review in Africa -- 3 MARC (Mapping African Research Ethics Review Capacity) Project -- PART II THE RESEARCH ETHICS COMMITTEE -- 4 The REC Meeting and REC Member Responsibilities -- 5 The REC Standard Operating Procedures in Africa -- 6 A Stepwise Approach to Protocol Review -- 7 Safety and Adverse Event Monitoring -- 8 On-going Monitoring of Research, Post REC Approval -- PART III SPECIFIC TOPICS -- 9 Informed Consent in an African Context -- 10 Risk-benefit Assessment -- 11 Clinical Trials -- 12 Research Vulnerability -- 13 Children as research subjects -- 14 Public Health Research Ethics -- 15 Traditional MedicineResearch: EthicalImplications in theConduct of African Traditional Medicine Research -- 16 Ethics Review of Socialand Behavioural Research in an African Context -- 17 Evaluating genetic and genomic research proposals in Africa -- 18 Payment of research participants -- 19 Community Engagement -- 20 Ancillary care in research -- PART IV RESOURCES -- 21 REC Review of Internationally Funded Research -- 22 Educational Resources For Research Ethics -- 23 A Self-Assessment Tool to Assess Operational Characteristics of Research Ethics Committees in Developing Countries -- PART V APPENDIX -- 24 Review Form -- 25 Informed Consent Template -- 26 Glossary.

The aim of this book is to provide research ethics committee members with a resource that focuses on research ethics issues in Africa.

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