Randomised controlled trials for Ebola: practical and ethical issues
Lancet
.
2014 Oct 18;384(9952):1423-4.
doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(14)61734-7.
Epub 2014 Oct 13.
Authors
Clement Adebamowo
1
,
Oumou Bah-Sow
2
,
Fred Binka
3
,
Roberto Bruzzone
4
,
Arthur Caplan
5
,
Jean-François Delfraissy
6
,
David Heymann
7
,
Peter Horby
8
,
Pontiano Kaleebu
9
,
Jean-Jacques Muyembe Tamfum
10
,
Piero Olliaro
11
,
Peter Piot
12
,
Abdul Tejan-Cole
13
,
Oyewale Tomori
14
,
Aissatou Toure
15
,
Els Torreele
16
,
John Whitehead
17
Affiliations
1
National Health Research Ethics Committee, Abuja, Nigeria.
2
Hôpital National Ignace Deen, Conakry, Guinea.
3
University of Health and Allied Sciences, Ho, Ghana.
4
Hong Kong University-Pasteur Research Pole, School of Public Health, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
5
New York University Langone Medical Center, New York, NY, USA.
6
Institut de Microbiologie et Maladies Infectieuses and INSERM, Paris, France.
7
Centre on Global Health Security, Chatham House, London, UK.
8
University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
9
Medical Research Council, Uganda Virus Research Institute, Entebbe, Uganda.
10
Institut National de Recherche Biomedicale, Kinshasa, DR Congo.
11
WHO, Geneva, Switzerland; University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. Electronic address: piero.olliaro@ndm.ox.ac.uk.
12
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
13
Open Society Initiative for West Africa, Dakar, Senegal.
14
Nigerian Academy of Science, Lagos, Nigeria.
15
Institut Pasteur Dakar, Dakar, Senegal.
16
Open Society Foundations, New York, NY, USA.
17
Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK.
PMID:
25390318
PMCID:
PMC4392883
DOI:
10.1016/S0140-6736(14)61734-7
No abstract available
Publication types
Letter
MeSH terms
Africa, Western
Antiviral Agents / therapeutic use*
Ethics, Medical
Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola / drug therapy*
Humans
Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic / ethics*
Research Design
Substances
Antiviral Agents
Grants and funding
001/WHO_/World Health Organization/International
R25 TW007091/TW/FIC NIH HHS/United States