title: Culture and voluntary informed consent in African health care systems.
abstract: This paper discusses how to apply a collective decision model of the principle of voluntary informed consent in African communitarian culture, in a culturally sensitive way, in order to protect research candidates from potential exploitations and abuses. Dismissing cultural and ethical skepticism surrounding the global application of the principle of voluntary informed consent, the paper ultimately concludes that international collaboration on diagnostic and therapeutic medical research in Africa, especially HIV vaccine trials, is a moral imperative.
authors.affiliation: Department of Philosophy & Religious Studies, California State University, Bakersfield, 9001 Stockdale Highway, Bakersfield, CA 93311-1102, USA. afrimpong_mansoh@csub.edu
authors.forename: Augustine
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Frimpong-Mansoh
mesh_terms: D016915:AIDS Vaccines / Q000627:therapeutic use; D000349:Africa; D002986:Clinical Trials as Topic / Q000941:ethics*; D003466:Cultural Characteristics; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000941:ethics*; D032984:Ethics, Research; D006801:Humans; D007258:Informed Consent / Q000941:ethics*; D035842:Research Subjects; D035862:Vulnerable Populations
chemical_list: D016915:AIDS Vaccines