title: Ethical aspects in clinical trials in the CIS, in particular the setting up of ethical committees.
abstract: The ethical aspects of clinical trials in the CIS are based on the development of systematic ethical review and ethical insight and responsibility on the part of researchers, sponsors, and government agencies and society. This is the main purpose of the Forum for Ethics Committees in the Commonwealth of Independent States (FECCIS) whose establishment and activities are focused on the integration of the CIS into the world system of biomedical research with regard to safeguarding ethical standards of human rights protection and harmonization of regulative and methodological space to safeguard protection of human rights and the dignity of biomedical research participants in the CIS.
authors.affiliation: Pasteur Institute, Saint-Petersburg, Russia.
authors.forename: Olga
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Kubar
mesh_terms: D001675:Bioethics; D002986:Clinical Trials as Topic / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D017517:Commonwealth of Independent States; D026724:Ethical Review; D028744:Ethics Committees, Research / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006806:Human Rights; D006801:Humans; D007391:International Cooperation