Upholding ethics, human rights in biomedical study
Monday, June 29, 2020 0:01
By CATHY MPUTHIA
One of the first South African Oxford vaccine trialists looks on as a medical worker injects him with the clinical trial for a potential vaccine against the coronavirus at the Baragwanath hospital in Soweto, South Africa, on June 24 ,2020.
In undertaking biomedical research, trials and vaccines may need to be undertaken on human beings.
While Kenya does not have a standalone law on biomedical research providing for issues such as the rights of the targets of the research, issues of biomedical ethics are contained in several laws.
Fortunately, today there is a lot of regulation concerning human trial vaccines and research such that rights are upheld.
The above represent some of the Constitutional rights which must be adhered to when conducting Covid-19 research and trial runs in Kenya where the same involve human beings.
