Department of Ethics
Moving from research ethics review to research ethics systems in low-income and middle-income countries
Adnan A Hyder, Liza Dawson, Abdulgafoor M Bachani, James V Lavery
Abstract
The challenges associated with research ethics in low-income and middle-income countries are complex. The development of effective programmes for reviewing research and protecting participants in these countries engages wider issues surrounding the general stage of development and democratisation of developing-world societies, and cannot be addressed by regulatory processes alone. Despite sustained attention to the challenges of research-capacity building by developing countries, there have been few attempts to describe how a country’s stage of development relates to the two challenges central to research ethics—protection of research participants and promotion of ethical conduct in research.

The Lancet
Mar 07, 2009 Volume 373 Number 9666 Pages 781 – 866
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/issue/current