From HIV to Ebola : ethical reflections on health research in the global south and recommendations from INSERM and IRD
(2015) , 15 pages
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Botbol-Baum, Mylene 
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- Pandemics are not new: throughout the 19th century, outbursts of plague and cholera resulted in cooperation among major Western powers to protect against scourges. Since 1947, the World Health Organization (WHO) has been treating public health problems on a larger scale. However, the HIV epidemic has played a decisive role in accelerating the convergence between the institutions. The complementarity between fundamental and clinical research in virology and field research, as well as the importance of the humanities and social sciences, were vital to best understand the individual and collective experiences of the contagions. The creation in November 1988 of the French National Agency for Research on AIDS (ANRS), an independently funded agency housed by Inserm since 2012, led to unprecedented interactions between researchers from the two institutions. It also encouraged the emergence of joint projects where researchers got to know each other and learned to work together, particularly within the ANRS Coordinated Action for “Developing Countries,” which facilitated the development of research “platforms” (the first was created in Dakar in 1990) in several African and Asian countries affected by HIV and hepatitis C(1999) and B (2005)...
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Botbol-Baum, M., & et al. (2015). From HIV to Ebola : ethical reflections on health research in the global south and recommendations from INSERM and IRD. INSERM. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/93030