Title
The Balm of Gilead: Is the Provision of Treatment to those Who Seroconvert in HIV Prevention Trials a Matter of Moral Obligation or Moral Negotiation?
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Winter 2006
Source
Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics
Volume
34
Issue
4
First Page
793
Last Page
808
URL with Digital Object Identifier
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-720X.2006.00099.x
Abstract
Must treatment be provided to subjects who acquire HIV during the course of a prevention study? An analysis of ethical foundation, regulation, and recent argumentation provides no basis for the obligation. We outline an alternative approach to the problem based on moral negotiation.
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