How to Address the Risk of HIV Transmission in Remission Studies With Treatment Interruption: The Low-Hanging Fruit Approach

Some HIV remission studies include a treatment interruption that seriously risks infecting participants’ sex partners with HIV. What, ethically, is owed to these nonparticipants? Until greater certainty emerges on what protections should be afforded nonparticipants of research studies, what I call a...

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Autor principal: Eyal, Nir
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2019
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Supplement Articles
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6603962/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31264692
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/infdis/jiz163
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Sumario:Some HIV remission studies include a treatment interruption that seriously risks infecting participants’ sex partners with HIV. What, ethically, is owed to these nonparticipants? Until greater certainty emerges on what protections should be afforded nonparticipants of research studies, what I call a “low-hanging fruit” approach may help researchers and review bodies determine how to address infection risks to nonparticipants in these studies.

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