Engaging with research ethics in central Francophone Africa: reflections on a workshop about ancillary care

Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine

Stuart Rennie³  Vicky Ilunga²  Aime Malonga¹  Pierre Dimany¹  Bavon Mupenda¹  Tomi Tshikala² 

[1] Center Interdisciplinaire de Bioéthique pour l’Afrique Francophone (CIBAF), Kinshasa School of Public Health, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kinshasa, Congo;Kinshasa School of Public Health, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kinshasa, Congo;Department of Social Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

关键词: Medical education;    Ancillary care;    Francophone Africa;    Developing countries;    Research ethics;   

Others  :  816464
DOI  :  10.1186/1747-5341-7-10

 received in 2011-11-24, accepted in 2012-07-31,  发布年份 2012

【 摘 要 】

Research ethics is predominantly taught and practiced in Anglophone countries, particularly those in North America and Western Europe. Initiatives to build research ethics capacity in developing countries must attempt to avoid imposing foreign frameworks and engage with ethical issues in research that are locally relevant. This article describes the process and outcomes of a capacity-building workshop that took place in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo in the summer of 2011. Although the workshop focused on a specific ethical theme – the responsibilities of researchers to provide health-related care to their research participants – we argue that the structure of the workshop offers a useful method for engaging with research ethics in general, and the theme of ancillary care encourages a broad perspective on research ethics that is highly pertinent in low-income countries. The workshop follows an interactive, locally driven model that could be fruitfully replicated in similar settings.

【 授权许可】

   
2012 Tshikala et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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