Consultation on ethical-legal concerns in HIV vaccine and microbicide trial

To access the full report of this two day consultation prepared by the the HIV AIDS Vaccines Ethics Group & the Global Campaign for Microbicides click here (360KB).

Day 1 - 5 September 2007

Session I Checking on adolescents in HIV vaccine and microbicide trials:

Where are we and why are we still here?

Objectives: Review the status of adolescent involvement in HIV vaccine and microbicide trials. Where have we been? Where are we now? Where are we going? What are the key problems and impasses that keep us from moving forward?

Session II Reviewing the ethical-legal problems in adolescent HIV vaccine and microbicide trials: What do we know? What new issues are coming up?

Objectives: Review the ethical-legal challenges, concerns and impasses. What issues have already been identified in the literature? What emerging issues are there?

Session III Refining the problems: A problem analysis

Objectives: Develop a more refined view of the problems in
i Community - ii Science - iii Ethical - iv Legal / Regulatory domains. (a) What are the issues? (b) What are the priorities? (c) What’s unique to HIV vaccine trials versus Microbicide trials (d) What is unique to “South” or North” settings?

Group-work instructions

Day 2 - 6 September 2007

Session IV Feedback from groups and towards consensus on priorities

Objectives: Discuss priorities identified by each group. Build consensus on most critical concerns

Session V Positioning microbidices and HIV vaccines

Objectives: To identify where the fields are at in terms of history, science and political considerations

Groupwork - 2 large groups:
HIV Vaccine Trials and Microbicides Trials considering most impactful next steps to advance the optimal involvement of adolescents

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