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I'm sure you must be asking yourselves what makes developing countries, especially those in sub-Saharan Africa, so attractive for these HIV
clinical
trials?
Well, in order for a
clinical
trial to generate valid and widely applicable results, they need to be conducted with large numbers of study participants and preferably on a population with a high incidence of new HIV infections.
A
clinical
trial that is considered to be potentially beneficial to the population is more likely to be authorized, and in the absence of good health care systems, almost any offer of medical assistance is accepted as better than nothing.
Now, in order for a
clinical
trial to be considered ethically acceptable, participants must be given the relevant information in a way in which they can understand, and must freely consent to participate in the trial.
Local communities need to be more involved in establishing the criteria for recruiting participants in
clinical
trials, as well as the incentives for participation.
The second point I would like for you to consider is the standard of care that is provided to participants within any
clinical
trial.
Should the control group in the
clinical
trial be given the best current treatment which is available anywhere in the world?
It is important to assess the potential risks and benefits of the standard of care which is to be provided to participants in any
clinical
trial, and establish one which is relevant for the context of the study and most beneficial for the participants within the study.
An effective system for reviewing the ethical suitability of
clinical
trials is primordial to safeguard participants within any
clinical
trial.
Local governments need to set up effective systems for reviewing the ethical issues around the
clinical
trials which are authorized in different developing countries, and they need to do this by setting up ethical review committees that are independent of the government and research sponsors.
The final point I would like for you to consider tonight is what happens to participants in the
clinical
trial once the research has been completed.
Now, researchers need to make every effort to ensure that an intervention that has been shown to be beneficial during a
clinical
trial is accessible to the participants of the trial once the trial has been completed.
If, for any reason, they feel that this might not be possible, then I think they should have to ethically justify why the
clinical
trial should be conducted in the first place.
Although she may not know this, my encounter with Celine has completely changed the way in which I view HIV
clinical
trials in developing countries, and made me even more determined to be part of the movement to change the way in which things are done.
If you come from a developing country like myself, I urge you to hold your government to a more thorough review of the
clinical
trials which are authorized in your country.
Yes, there is a need for us to find a cure for HIV, to find an effective vaccine for malaria, to find a diagnostic tool that works for T.B., but I believe that we owe it to those who willingly and selflessly consent to participate in these
clinical
trials to do this in a humane way.
Ultimately, maybe you can run a
clinical
trial with four or five of these, and if all goes well, 14 years after you started, you will get one approval.
This has led, in the space of only four years from the time the gene was discovered to the start of a
clinical
trial, to a test of that very compound.
You might have noticed that the drug that is now in
clinical
trial for progeria is not a drug that was designed for that.
Of course they look at X-rays, but a large part of this
clinical
judgment comes from what they feel when they touch your teeth with a dental explorer.
Randomized
clinical
trials were actually invented in 1948 to help invent the drugs that cured tuberculosis, and those are important things, don't get me wrong.
So now we are in
clinical
trials, and are in Phase III
clinical
trials, and this may become a new procedure, if it's safe and we find that it's effective, to treat patients with severe depression.
So this is now in
clinical
trials.
We are now learning to understand what are the circuits, what are the areas of the brain that are responsible for the
clinical
signs and the symptoms of those diseases.
Changes in our language associated with Alzheimer's can sometimes show up more than 10 years before
clinical
diagnosis.
I was a Ph.D. student in
clinical
psychology at Berkeley.
I'd say, as a doctor, I delivered the best
clinical
care I could, but as a human being, I let you down.
The blue line is an indication of when patterns start to change, and immediately, before we even started putting in
clinical
interpretation, we can see that the data is speaking to us.
The first was that sleep disruption actually precedes certain types of mental illness, and we've shown that in those young individuals who are at high risk of developing bipolar disorder, they already have a sleep abnormality prior to any
clinical
diagnosis of bipolar.
And this is a serious
clinical
problem.
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