The ethics of placebo-controlled trials for perinatal transmission of HIV in developing countries

MeSH terms

• Anti-HIV Agents / administration & dosage*
• Beneficence
• Comprehension
• Control Groups*
• Developing Countries*
• Dose-Response Relationship, Drug
• Ethical Analysis
• Ethical Relativism
• Ethics, Medical*
• Female
• HIV Infections / drug therapy*
• HIV Infections / transmission
• Humans
• Infant, Newborn
• Infectious Disease Transmission, Vertical / prevention & control*
• Internationality
• Personal Autonomy
• Persons
• Pregnancy
• Pregnancy Complications, Infectious / drug therapy*
• Pregnant Women*
• Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic / legislation & jurisprudence*
• Research Subjects
• Risk Assessment
• Social Justice
• Treatment Outcome
• Vulnerable Populations
• Zidovudine / administration & dosage*