Doris Schopper and colleagues describe the functioning of the Médecins Sans Frontières independent ethics review board and the framework used for ethics review, and discuss challenging ethical issues encountered by the board since its inception

Ahmad, Aasim

Bandewar, Sunita Sheel

Matthys, Francine

Schopper, Doris

Singh, Jerome Amir

Upshur, Ross

van Dongen, Els

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Access to essential drugs in poor countries. A lost battle?

Assessment of ethical review process in Sudan.

Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

Drug development for neglected diseases: A deficient market and a public-health failure.

Ethical codes in humanitarian emergencies: From practice to research.

Ethical practices for health research in the Eastern Mediterranean region of the World Health Organization: A retrospective data analysis.

Ethical review of health research: A perspective from developing country researchers.

Ethics creep: Governing social science research in the name of ethics.

Ethics of research in refugee populations.

Ethics review procedures for research in developing countries: A basic presumption of guilt.

Grand challenges in global Health: Community Engagement In Research In Developing Countries.

Health research ethics review and needs of institutional ethics committees in Tanzania.

Human-tissue-related inventions: Ownership and intellectual property rights in international collaborative research in developing countries.

International ethical guidelines for biomedical research involving human subjects. Available: http://www.cioms.ch/frame_ guidelines_nov_2002.htm.

Me ´decins Sans Frontie `res (2009) MSF field research: MSF ethics.

National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research

Nuffield Council on Bioethics

One-time general consent for research on biological samples.

Placing ethics in the centre: Negotiating new spaces for ethical research in conflict situations.

Post-trial access to tested interventions: The views of IRB/REC chair, investigators, and research participants in a multinational HIV/AIDS study.

Putting women first: Ethical and safety recommendations for research on domestic violence against women. World Health Organization. Available: http://whqlibdoc.who.int/hq/ 2001/WHO_FCH_GWH_01.1.pdf.

Research ethics and developing countries.

Research in complex humanitarian emergencies: The Me ´decins Sans Frontie `res/Epicentre experience.

Reuse of samples: Ethical issues encountered by two institutional ethics review committees in Kenya.

Taking tissue seriously means taking communities seriously.

The role of NGOs in global health research for development.

The structure and function of research ethics committees in Africa: A case study.

What makes clinical research in developing countries ethical? The benchmarks of ethical research.

World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki: Ethical principles for medical research involving human subjects. Available: http://www.wma.net/e/policy/ b3.htm.

Research Ethics Review in Humanitarian Contexts: The Experience of the Independent Ethics Review Board of Médecins Sans Frontières

a<p>In most instances this means one cycle of resubmission; in a few cases, there were two cycles of resubmission.</p>b<p>Studies that were not submitted to ethics review prior to implementation cannot be approved after the fact. However, the ERB has agreed to provide advice on ethical issues prior to publication.</p