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ArticleAsian bioethics review2024

Ethics Review of Biomedical Research in Uzbekistan: Policy and Program Gaps.

Dilfuza Aniyozova, Martin A Strosberg

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Article in Asian bioethics review, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Dilfuza AniyozovaTashkent Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education, Tashkent, Uzbekistan.ORCID 0000-0002-7356-1736
Martin A StrosbergClarkson University, Schenectady, NY USA.

Funding

International Bioethics Research Postdoctoral Training - C. Asia NetworkD43TW011237 · FIC · BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL · PI MUNIR, KERIM M · 2019 to 2023
$1.2M
FIC NIH HHS D43 TW011237
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We describe the national health research ethics review system of Uzbekistan and identify policy and program gaps that impede the protection of human research subjects. We find that the National Ethic Committee (NEC), functioning at the national level, is solely responsible for conducting research ethics review. There is little evidence that regional ethics committees work as intended, and there is no research ethics review at medical institutes and research centers even though they conduct CDTs (clinical drug trials). There is no national policy for the ethical review of non-clinical trials. We recommend the establishment of institutional review boards (IRBs) at medical institutes and research centers while at the same time building capacity at the national level to oversee and support the research ethics review system of the entire country.

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Biomedical researchEthics reviewIRBResearch ethicsUzbekistan

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PMID39398450
PMCPMC11464834

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