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Re:Gilead Shot Prevents All HIV Cases in Trial of African Women by kjhcvkek77 on Friday June 21, 2024 @07:07AM (#40748265)
Who would sign up for your study? The diligent person already on truvada - would they risk getting placebo? No. Or the person too careless to take truvada? Would they go to the trouble of participating in a study for a 50% chance of protection? No.
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Re:Gilead Shot Prevents All HIV Cases in Trial of African Women by Dylan16807 on Friday June 21, 2024 @08:50AM (#40749068)
That's an entirely different question from ethics.

But paying people to be studied tends to be effective.

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Re:Gilead Shot Prevents All HIV Cases in Trial of African Women by kjhcvkek77 on Friday June 21, 2024 @10:05AM (#40749777)
I don't think so. Managing the relationships with the public and study participants is an important part of the ethics.
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Re:Gilead Shot Prevents All HIV Cases in Trial of African Women by Dylan16807 on Friday June 21, 2024 @03:10PM (#40752648)
Ethics and managing relationships with the public overlap.

But I don't think the particular aspect of "making sure you have enough participants" interacts very much with ethics. Especially when the failure state in question is an honest failure to attract them.

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