Exploring the Ethical issues in Clinical Research with Pregnant Women in low resource settings; and acceptability of interventions for pregnant women: An Ethnography Of The Pregnanzi-2 Trial In The Gambia Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde
Azucena Badaji, Rene Gerrets, Koen Peeters
Background: Assessing new Interventions aimed at reducing the unacceptably high levels of maternal and neonatal mortality is necessary and urgent in low resource settings, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa which bears the greatest burden. Often, these new interventions are assessed in clinical trial settings under strictly controlled environments to generate generalizable knowledge. The involvement of pregnant women in clinical research is ...