Biomedical Research in Developing Countries - UNICRI

EVIPnet Africa sponsors partnership in 11 Sub-Saharan African countries and it
was launched on March 2006 during a workshop held at WHO/AFRO Headquarters
in Brazzaville, Congo, which brought together senior health policy-makers and
researchers from 8 African countries.
The first phase of EVIPnet Africa is supported by the Health System Division of the
Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency -SIDA- and WHO. During
this initial phase African countries that are part of EVIPnet are committed to create
their concept for partnership between policy-makers and researchers, build their
teams, organize workshops in each country in order to identify priorities.
http://evipnet.bvsalud.org
Fogarty African Bioethics Training Programme
The Fogarty African Bioethics Training Programme is a one year training program
in research ethics for scientists and professionals from Sub-Saharan Africa,
organized by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Johns
Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics, in collaboration with the U.S. National
Institutes of Health (NIH), Department of Clinical Bioethics. It is named after the
funding agency, the Fogarty International Center of the U.S. National Institutes of
Health (NIH). Started in 2001, the Training Programme is structured in two parts:
in the first six months, trainees are based in the USA and attend the courses at the
Johns Hopkins University. Training includes seminars attendance at the
Georgetown University and at the National Institute of Health (NIH), where they
can directly study the functioning of the Institutional Review Board, by attending
its monthly meetings. For the following six months, trainees return to their home
country to conduct a project related to bioethics and research ethics, under the
supervision of mentors from the USA and Africa. Projects assignments may include
a scholarly papers on an issue regarding the application of the international
guidelines, or ethics workshops for research colleagues or ethical committee
members or the design and implementation of a new procedure in a study and its
evaluation, such as an informed consent form in an African setting, the
development of ad hoc programmes for patient protection. Once the training is
completed, trainees remain connected trough continuing mentorship programmes
and meetings, so as to create a growing network of research ethicists from different
backgrounds.
http://www.bioethicsinstitute.org/web/page/440/sectionid/378/interior.asp
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