Background Antenatal care (ANC) is a key strategy to improve maternal and infant health.
However, survey data from sub-Saharan Africa indicate that women often only initiate ANC …

Countries in sub-Saharan Africa were once dismissed by Western experts as being too poor
and chaotic to benefit from the antiretroviral drugs that transformed the AIDS epidemic in the …

As community engagement (CE) is implemented for sustainable maternal and newborn
health (MNH) programming, it is important to determine how these approaches work. Low …

If I drive two miles down the road that takes me to the supermarkets and retail shops of the
midwestern town where I grew up, I will pass the local branch of Across-the-Globe-Research …

Background: Community engagement (CE) is increasingly accepted as a critical aspect of
health research, because of its potential to make research more ethical, relevant and well …

Community engagement is increasingly recognized as a critical element of medical
research, recommended by ethicists, required by research funders and advocated in ethics …

Unknown knowns—or “public secrets”—may play an integral part in publicly funded medical
science. In one large transnational field research site in Africa, such unknowing pertains to …

Background This paper discusses the establishment of a clinical trial of an Ebola vaccine
candidate in Kambia District, Northern Sierra Leone during the epidemic, and analyses the …

The ethics of medical research have grown as an area of expertise and debate in recent
years, with two broad approaches emerging in relation to transnational research:(1) the …

Background Biobanks are precariously situated at the intersection of science, genetics,
genomics, society, ethics, the law and politics. This multi-disciplinarity has given rise to a …