Main description:

This book reveals the necessary steps required by researchers from both developing and industrialised areas to conduct biomedical research in resource poor communities. This book goes beyond the ethical consideration and concentrates on issues considered minor by many researchers during planning of their research conduct. The communities considered are diverse both culturally and geographically. The communities are exposed by the authors with several years' experience working in the area on hierarchy, beliefs and fears, the economical and social aspects. Probably the education levels and how this is developing, impacting on research have been discussed. The boundaries and religions that make each community as an important aspect demarcating Africa into the social structures. Planning and preparing to undertake biomedical research in resource poor communities of Africa goes even deeper than the normal ethical considerations.

Contents:

Preface; Introduction: Africa and Health; Conducting Biomedical Research in Africa - Important Ethical Issues Researchers Need to Consider; Contemporary Ethical Issues and the Regulation of Biomedical Research in Africa; Perspective of a Historical Africa; Globalisation of Health Informed Consent; Protection of Human Subject in Biomedical Research in Egypt; Biomedical Researches in Sudan; The United Republic of Tanzania, East Africa; Conducting Biomedical Research in Malawi: What Researchers Need to Know; Republic of Cameroon; Biomedical Research in South Africa; Biomedical Research in Zimbabwe; The Republic of Ghana, West Africa: Steps in Doing Health Research in Ghana; Concluding Remarks: Towards Community Engagement; Glossary; Index.