Biomedical Research in Developing Countries - UNICRI

Educating
Bioethics
Committees
Guide n.3
2007
UNESCO
This is a practical guide on the training and
continuous education needed by members
of Bioethics Committees. It is one of
three tools that can be very useful in
connection with training and educational
courses.
AFRICA HEALTH
STRATEGY: 2007
– 2015
“Strengthening of
health systems for
equity and
development in
Africa”
2007
Third Session of
the African Union
Conference of
Ministers of Health
This document is the African Union
Ministers of Health strategic paper,
containing the objectives and methods that
can ensure essential health care for all
Africans, especially the poorest, by 2015, in
line with the UN MDG.
National Code of
Health Research
Ethics
2007
Nigeria - Federal
Ministry of Health,
Department of
health planning
and research,
National Health
Research Ethics
Committee
(NHREC),
This code applies to all health research
involving human participants, conducted,
supported or otherwise subject to
regulation by any institution in Nigeria.The
Code includes guidelines on the
composition of Research Ethics
Committees and Standard Operating
Procedures for their functioning. It is
interesting to note that in addition to the
necessary competence to review health
research, RECs must be able to evaluate
“acceptability of proposed research in
terms of institutional regulations, applicable
laws, and standards of professional conduct
and practice. The HREC shall therefore
include persons knowledgeable in these
areas and whenever feasible, a lawyer.”
National
Statement on
Ethical Conduct in
Human Research
2007
(rev.)
1999
Australia, National
Health and Medical
Research Council
This statement represents Australia’s
primary guidelines for the ethical conduct
of research involving human participants.
Ouagadougou
Declaration
2008
Organization of
African Unity, 34th
Session of
Assembly of Heads
of State and
Government
The International Conference on Primary
Health Care and Health Systems in Africa,
was held in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso in
April 2008. During this Conference the
principles of the Declaration of Alma-Ata
of September 1978 were reaffirmed and it
was stressed the importance of the
recognition of health as a fundamental
human right as well as the responsibility of
governments in ensuring health for their
people.
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