MAPPING AFRICAN ETHICAL REVIEW COMMITTEE ACTIVITY ONTO CAPACITY NEEDS: THE MARC INITIATIVE AND HRWEB'S INTERACTIVE DATABASE OF RECS IN AFRICA
MAPPING AFRICAN ETHICAL REVIEW COMMITTEE ACTIVITY ONTO CAPACITY NEEDS: THE MARC INITIATIVE AND HRWEB'S INTERACTIVE DATABASE OF RECS IN AFRICA
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10.1111/j.1471-8847.2012.00325.x
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发表时间：
2012-08-01
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2.2
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Mokgatla-Moipolai, Boitumelo
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作者：
Ijsselmuiden, Carel;Marais, Debbie;Mokgatla-Moipolai, Boitumelo
世界各地的卫生研究活动在范围和复杂性方面都在增长，特别是在它们进入发展中国家的时候。低收入和中等收入国家卫生研究活动的扩大导致对以研究伦理委员会(REC)形式的健全伦理审查结构和职能的需要相应增加。然而，由于这些国家面临巨大挑战，包括资源可获得性差和能力不足，这些国家似乎落后了。因此，迫切需要在这些区域，特别是在非洲，持续不断地发展能力和资源。同样，有必要开展研究并提出倡议，以确定现有的能力和资金，并指明需要发展的领域。本讨论文件认为，绘制非洲研究伦理能力图(MARC)项目是一项及时的倡议，旨在确定现有的能力。MARC在健康研究促进发展理事会(COHRED)的健康研究网站(HRWeb)上提供了一个平台和工具，区域经济共同体和非洲卫生研究中的主要利益攸关方可以使用该网站来确定能力、限制和发展需求。MARC打算在非洲提供第一个全面的区域经济共同体互动数据库，以便确定关键关系和分析能力。MARC的潜力在于将当前的伦理审查活动映射到能力需求上。本文作为一个起点，对非洲区域经济共同体的现状进行了描述性的说明。
Health research initiatives worldwide are growing in scope and complexity, particularly as they move into the developing world. Expanding health research activity in low- and middle-income countries has resulted in a commensurate rise in the need for sound ethical review structures and functions in the form of Research Ethics Committees (RECs). Yet these seem to be lagging behind as a result of the enormous challenges facing these countries, including poor resource availability and lack of capacity. There is thus an urgent need for ongoing capacity and resource development in these regions in general, and in Africa in particular. Similarly, there is a need for research and initiatives that can identify existing capacity and funding and indicate the areas where this needs to be developed. This discussion paper argues that the Mapping African Research Ethics Capacity (MARC) project is a timely initiative aimed at identifying existing capacity. MARC provides a platform and tool on the Council on Health Research for Development's (COHRED) Health Research website (HRWeb), which can be used by RECs and key stakeholders in health research in Africa to identify capacity, constraints and development needs. MARC intends to provide the first comprehensive interactive database of RECs in Africa, which will allow for the identification of key relationships and analyses of capacity. The potential of MARC lies in the mapping of current ethical review activity onto capacity needs. This paper serves as a starting point by providing a descriptive illustration of the current state of RECs in Africa.