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Informed Consent to AIDS-Vaccine Trials in Brazil: A Pilot Study

AIDS & Public Policy Journal 10, no. 1 (Spring 1995): 22-6
O. Queiroz da Fonseca, Jr. and R.K. Lie

Careful attention needs to be paid to requirements for informed consent. Before a potential participant is included in a trial, he must understand the risks involved and understand the need to continue to avoid high-risk behavior. Little, however, is known about whether the standard informed-consent process is adequate in the context of HIV-vaccine trials. Researchers in other areas of medicine have documented deficiencies in the informed-consent process.

Therefore, the aim of this pilot study was to see if it is possible to design a study of the use of informed consent in HIV-vaccine trials and to draw some preliminary conclusions about what aspects of the informed-consent process need particular attention.
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