Addressing ethical challenges in HIV prevention research with people who inject drugs
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Addressing ethical challenges in HIV prevention research with people who inject drugs.
Despite recent advances in HIV prevention and treatment, high HIV incidence persists among people who inject drugs (PWID). Difficult legal and political environments and lack of services for PWID likely contribute to high HIV incidence. Some advocates question whether any HIV prevention research is ethically justified in settings where healthcare system fails to provide basic services to PWID a...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Medical Ethics
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0306-6800,1473-4257
DOI: 10.1136/medethics-2015-102895