Repeating history: the ethics of the new Guinea-Bissau hepatitis B study
In the late 1990s, a U.S.-funded study randomized HIV-positive pregnant women in Bangkok, Thailand, to either a placebo group or a group treated with a short course of AZT. At the time, AZT was the standard of care in the U.S., and researchers knew the medication protocol worked at reducing mother-to-child HIV transmission by nearly 70 percent. The study looked at whether a shortened protocol could meaningfully reduce …
Repeating history: the ethics of the new Guinea-Bissau hepatitis B study
