• Pan Afr Med J · Jan 2020

    Expedited COVID-19 vaccine trials: a rat-race with challenges and ethical issues.

    • Prathamesh Haridas Kamble and Siddharth Pramod Dubhashi.
    • Department of Physiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Nagpur, India.
    • Pan Afr Med J. 2020 Jan 1; 36: 206.

    AbstractThe intense global efforts are directed towards development of vaccines to halt the COVID-19 virus pandemic. There are 160 candidate vaccines under clinical trials across the world using different molecular targets and techniques. This race for the vaccine has several challenges and ethical issues like compressed timelines, generation and proper management of resources and finances, risks to the participating volunteers due to curtailed research trial processes, geopolitical contentions, misinformation through social media and parallel race with drugs. We feel that the fundamental principles of ethics: autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence and justice should not be violated in this hastened vaccine development process. We recommend constitute a Consortium on a global platform to formulate, provide and monitor a comprehensive ethical umbrella to the process of vaccine development.Copyright: Prathamesh Haridas Kamble et al.

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