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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?, Charles Weijer, Guy Leblanc Dec 2005

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?, Charles Weijer, Guy Leblanc

Charles Weijer

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.