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ZIMBABWE
National specific legislation on ethics in biomedical research
Guidelines and/or SOPs concerning ethics in research
National/Institutional Bioethics Committees that review ethics
of biomedical research with human participants
N/A
YES
YES
Sources:
1) COHRED - The Council on Health Research for Development, Can communities
influence national health research agendas? A learning process leading to a framework for
community engagement in shaping health research policy, Country experiences: Bolivia,
Cambodia, India, Kenya, Pakistan,Tajikistan, Zimbabwe, 2006 (Accessed on 21 July 2008
at http://www.cohred.org/publications/recordpapers/COHREDRP3Communities.pdf
2) Kirigia J. M,Wambebe C., Baba-Moussa A., Status of national research bioethics
committees in the WHO African region, BMC Medical Ethics, 2005,Vol. 6:10 (Accessed
on 21 August 2008 at http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6939/6/10)
3) Kumaranayake L., Lake S., Mujinja P., Hongoro C., Mpembeni R., How do countries
regulate the health sector? Evidence from Tanzania and Zimbabwe, Health Policy and
Planning, 2000,Vol. 15, No. 4, Pages 357-367 (Accessed on 22 July 2008 at
http://heapol.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/15/4/357.pdf)
4) Republic of Zimbabwe, Medical Research Council (MRC), Conducting Health Research
In Zimbabwe: What researchers need to know, 2004 (Accessed on 21 July 2008 at
http://www.mrcz.org.zw/docs/conducting_health_research_in_zim.pdf )
5) Republic of Zimbabwe, Medicine and Allied Substances Control Act, 1969 (Accessed on
21 July 2008 at http://faolex.fao.org/docs/pdf/zim24977.pdf )
6) Republic of Zimbabwe, Medicine and Allied Substances Control General Regulations, 1991
(Accessed on 21 July 2008 at
http://www.mcaz.co.zw/legislation/Medicines%20and%20Allied%20Substances%20Con
trol%20Regulations%20(SI%20150%20of%201991).pdf)
7) Republic of Zimbabwe, Medicine Control Authority of Zimbabwe (Accessed on 26
August 2008 at http://mednet2.who.int/mdra/mcazw/laboratory.html)
8) Republic of Zimbabwe, Medicines Control Authority (MCAZ), Guidelines for Good
Clinical Trial Practice in Zimbabwe, 2002 (Accessed on 21 July 2008 at
http://www.mcaz.co.zw/Guidelines%20for%20Good%20Clinical%20Trial%20Practice%
20in%20Zimbabwe.pdf)
9) Republic of Zimbabwe, Medicines Control Authority (MCAZ), Guidelines for Good
Clinical Practice, 2002 (Accessed on 21 July 2008 at
http://mednet2.who.int/mdra/mcazw/guidelines%20for%20good%20clinical%20practice.pdf)
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