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Resources and Links
Many organisations and networks are working to articulate and resolve ethical issues of HIV prevention trials, and to develop models for community involvement and mobilisation.
The HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN) is a worldwide collaborative clinical trials network that develops and tests the safety and efficacy of primarily non-vaccine interventions designed to prevent the transmission of HIV. HPTN has both an Ethics Working Group and a Community Working Group, and members of these groups and the Global Campaign often work in collaboration on cross-cutting issues and activities.
The HPTN has produced a document that provides guidance for ethical decision-making and practice in HPTN-sponsored clinical trials.
The Community Working Group advises and advocates for community participation at all levels of the research process and ensures community participation is adequately addressed at the sites and in the management of the HPTN.
Microbicide and vaccine research share many issues in ethics and community involvement, and there are several resources within the vaccine world that have insight for microbicides. Some of these include:
HIV Vaccine Trials Network Community
South Africa AIDS Vaccine Initiative (SAAVI) HIV/AIDS Vaccine Ethics Group.