Preventing ethics dumping: the challenges for Kenyan research ethics committees
| Autor: | Joshua Kimani, Bhatt Km, Kate Chatfield, Joyce Adhiambo Odhiambo, Doris Schroeder, Elizabeth A. Bukusi, Julie Cook, Anastasia Guantai |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Research ethics
Kenya Corporate governance V590 Information Dissemination 06 humanities and the arts 0603 philosophy ethics and religion Education lcsh:Ethics 03 medical and health sciences Philosophy 0302 clinical medicine Informed consent 030225 pediatrics Dumping Power structure Engineering ethics 060301 applied ethics lcsh:BJ1-1725 Cultural competence |
| Zdroj: | Research Ethics Review, Vol 17 (2021) |
| ISSN: | 2047-6094 1747-0161 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/1747016120925064 |
| Popis: | Ethics dumping is the practice of undertaking research in a low- or middle-income setting which would not be permitted, or would be severely restricted, in a high-income setting. Whilst Kenya operates a sophisticated research governance system, resource constraints and the relatively low number of accredited research ethics committees limit the capacity for ensuring ethical compliance. As a result, Kenya has been experiencing cases of ethics dumping. This article presents 11 challenges in the context of preventing ethics dumping in Kenya, namely variations in governance standards, resistance to double ethics review, resource constraints, unresolved issues in the management of biological samples, unresolved issues in the management of primary data, unsuitable informed consent procedures, cultural insensitivity, differing standards of care, reluctance to provide feedback to research communities, power differentials which facilitate the exploitation of local researchers and lack of local relevance and/or affordability of the resultant products. A reflective approach for researchers, built around the values of fairness, respect, care and honesty, is presented as a means of taking shared responsibility for preventing ethics dumping. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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