The ethical and validity conundrum in epilepsy research in LMIC settings

Front Neurol. 2023 May 17:14:1196261. doi: 10.3389/fneur.2023.1196261. eCollection 2023.

Pauline Samia^{1

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3}, Adeel Shah¹, Archana Patel⁴, Philip Olielo¹, Lionel Mudave¹, Samson Gwer^{5

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¹ Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Medical College, Aga Khan University, Nairobi, Kenya.
² Brain and Mind Institute, Aga Khan University, Nairobi, Kenya.
³ Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
⁴ Division of Epilepsy and Clinical Neurophysiology, Department of Neurology, Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States.
⁵ School of Medicine, Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya.
⁶ Department of Neurology, Gertrude's Children's Hospital, Nairobi, Kenya.
⁷ Afya Research Africa, Nairobi, Kenya.

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Keywords: epilepsy; ethics; low-middle-income-countries; research; sustainable collaborations.