°®ÍþÄÌapp reaction to WHO convening ethical review of experimental treatment for Ebola
26 September 2014 °®ÍþÄÌapp of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine °®ÍþÄÌapp of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine https://lshtm.ac.uk/themes/custom/lshtm/images/lshtm-logo-black.png°®ÍþÄÌapp reaction to World Health Organization (WHO) convening ethical review of experimental treatment for Ebola.
David Heymann, Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology at the °®ÍþÄÌapp of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, said:
"The ethics of research must be a national decision, and countries that require support in making that decision need guidance from international organisations such as the WHO. The decision will be based on several factors that countries deem important such as risk/benefit and usual human subjects research standards. These discussions must be held in full transparency with all the evidence known from previous or current R and D."
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