Research Ethics Review in Humanitarian Contexts: The Experience of the Independent Ethics Review Board of Médecins Sans Frontières
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1 Ethics Review Board, Médecins Sans Frontières, Geneva, Switzerland, 2 University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 3 Unit of Epidemiology and Disease Control, Department of Public Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium, 4 Bioethics and Health Law Programme at the Center for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA), Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, 5 Research Program on Community Engagement Global Case Studies at Program on Ethics and Commercialization, McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 6 The Kidney Centre, Karachi, Pakistan, 7 Aga Kahn University, Karachi, Pakistan, 8 University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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