title: Humanitarian access to unapproved interventions in public health emergencies of international concern.
abstract: Jerome Singh considers how regulatory mechanisms can allow access to experimental interventions in humanitarian emergencies such as the Ebola epidemic.
authors.affiliation: Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA), University of Kwazulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa; Dalla Lana School of Public Health and Joint Centre for Bioethics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
authors.forename: Jerome Amir
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Singh
mesh_terms: D000533:Altruism; D029043:Ebolavirus; D004630:Emergencies; D058872:Epidemics; D014943:Global Health; D019142:Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000628:therapy* / Q000821:virology; D006801:Humans; D007391:International Cooperation; D011634:Public Health; D012066:Relief Work; D035703:Therapies, Investigational