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At the same time, it has highlighted ethical issues that arise in vector-borne diseases more generally. The HIV epidemic has raised many ethical challenges for public health officials, researchers and clinicians, reaching from macro-level policy to micro-level clinical decisions.
The goal of the guideline development project was to help policymakers and practitioners navigate the ethical issues presented by public health surveillance. This document outlines 17 ethical guidelines that can assist everyone involved in public health surveillance, including officials in government agencies, health workers, NGOs and the ...
International Ethical Guidelines for Biomedical Research Involving Human Subjects. The second version of the CIOMS Guidelines (1993) The period that followed saw the outbreak of the HIV/AIDS pandemic and proposals for large-scale trials of prevention and treatment for the disease. These developments raised new ethical issues
This document aims to assist policy‑makers, health care providers and researchers to understand key concepts in health ethics and to identify basic ethical questions surrounding health and health care. It illustrates the challenges of applying ethical principles to global public health and outlines practical strategies for dealing with those challenges.
It is important to adhere to ethical principles in order to protect the dignity, rights and welfare of research participants. As such, all research involving human beings should be reviewed by an ethics committee to ensure that the appropriate ethical standards are being upheld.
The Global Health Ethics Unit provides a focal point for the examination of ethical issues raised by activities throughout the Organization. The unit also supports Member States in addressing ethical issues that arise in their own countries. This includes a range of global bioethics topics; from public health surveillance to developments in genomics, and from research with human beings to fair ...
WHO has established an international Working Group on Ethics and COVID-19 in order to develop advice on key ethical questions that Member States need to address. The expert group also advises WHO’s technical units regarding ethical aspects of their COVID-related work. Since its formation in February 2020, the group has been engaged in the ...
Surveillance is one of the most fundamental activities of public health, involving different areas and practices such as non-communicable disease registers, outbreak investigations, and health systems research. Public health surveillance raises multiple ethical issues concerning, among others, the use/non-use of informed consent or the provision/non-provision of standards of care.
WHO takes a leadership role in the global ethics response to public health emergencies and works to ensure that ethics is embedded in the associated governance and oversight mechanisms. WHO develops guidelines and training materials on ethical issues arising in different types of epidemics, such as COVID-19, pandemic influenza, Ebola, and Zika.
WHO’s commitment to achieving universal health coverage and the goal of 1 billion more people benefitting from universal health coverage by 2023 exemplifies the ethical values at the core of public health. UHC is a powerful expression of fairness, solidarity and recognition of health as a human right.