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hello, our neighbour country-PakistanReference site-

www.springerlink.com/index/j8w53q12x511n626.pdf

This article features

Pakistan scene on local

capacity-building in research ethics.

The

process of ethical review work

Investigators

submit protocols to either NBC or a research ethics committee (REC) for review.

Role of NBC in the review process is not clear.

There does

not appear to be information published about how to submit protocols to NBC,

or about how to determine whether or not a protocol should be directed to NBC.

Training has

led to the establishment of 10 RECs in public sector hospitals; NBC is in the

process of helping to develop many more.

·

Unpublished data from a 2004 World Health Organization-funded

survey indicate that 24 of 68 medical institutions (35 percent) have RECs. All

but one of the RECs reported that they do not provide training for members.

In

a 2006 paper published in the Eastern

Mediterranean Health Journal, a

Pakistani professor says that the country’s intense social stratification heightens

the level of risk for participants in health-related studies.

local

capacity-building

Research

ethics in Pakistan is an emerging field seeking

best ethical standards for research practices.

There is an

absence of mechanisms for monitoring ongoing research, particularly for

assessing compliance with the recommendations of ethics review committees.

There are

few qualified individuals in research ethics in both the private and

public sectors.

There are

multiple challenges associated with research ethics, many of them stemming

from issues around development and democratization, which cannot be

addressed by guidelines and regulatory processes alone.

In

my opinion,- needs a lot of reforms.

kunda

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