title: China: people living with HIV complain about conduct of medical research.
abstract: In January 2004, four people living with HIV/AIDS from Shuangmiao village, Henan Province, China, went public with complaints about the conduct of a medical experiment, raising questions about whether research subjects gave their informed consent to participate in the experiment. The complaints and questions were contained in a letter to the Ethics Review Panel of the Center for STD/AIDS Prevention and Control at the China Center for Disease Prevention and Control.
mesh_terms: D035843:Biomedical Research; D002681:China / Q000453:epidemiology; D032984:Ethics, Research; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans