Ethical problems raised by anti-HIV vaccination

✍ Scribed by P. Enel; J. Charrel; M. P. Larher; D. Reviron; C. Manuel; J. L. San Marco

• Book ID: 104677020
• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1991
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 761 KB
• Volume: 7
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0393-2990
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00237358

✦ Synopsis

At present questions are being asked world-wide about the risk of the AIDS epidemic. The discovery of an anti-HIV vaccine has become an urgent priority, but it also raises a number of sensitive questions. Ethical problems in this field are particularly delicate, since the perspectives of individual health and public health do not seem to coincide. Our research team conducted a review of more than 400 articles on the ethical problems raised by AIDS. We concentrated particularly on the ethical and legal issues raised by research on anti-HIV vaccine. These problems fall into three main categories: therapeutic assays, which must be controlled by a strict agreement defined by international norms; manufacture of the future vaccine, raising legal difficulties which must be faced and solved now; distribution of the vaccine to the population, which should be conducted on a general basis, i.e. it should be offered to all individuals and not only to risk groups.