Research ethics guidelines are essential for conducting medical research. Recently, numerous attempts have been made to establish national clinical research documents in the countries of the Middle East. This article analyzes these documents. Thirteen Arab countries in the Middle East were explored for available national codes, regulations, and guidelines concerning research ethics, and 10 documents from eight countries were found. This study found different levels and kinds of research ethics regulations and guidelines in the countries examined. Two groups can be distinguished: the countries in the first group have one or more research ethics regulations or guidelines, while the countries in the second group have not yet established any. The article concludes that although a lot of efforts have been made in many countries in the Middle East there are still numerous deficiencies, compared with international documents. 

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is one of the leading humanitarian medical organizations. The foundational and animating values of MSF as a humanitarian medical organization are rooted in ethics. MSF has paid particular attention to ethical issues related to the research in which they engage. This is manifested by the creation of an independent ethics review board (ERB) that evaluates all research proposals involving MSF. This board chose to use an explicit framework to assess the ethical dimensions of the research. Based on discussions during several ERB meetings and other considerations a new ethical framework was drafted and finally adopted in September 2013. This new framework was used during a pilot phase November-December 2013. Its use has become mandatory since January 2014.

The Australian Council for International Development (ACFID) has developed the following guidelines through the contributions of, and consultation with, members and partners. The purpose of these guidelines is to assist ACFID members and their partners to understand and apply principles of ethical research conduct. They are intended as an educative tool to support and advance ethical research in theory and practice.

This resource is to complement your learning, and introduce you to other perspectives on the topics under discussion. As of 1 November 2013, National Mutual Acceptance of single ethical review of multi-centre research conducted in public health organisations will commence. All Australian States and Territories support the concept of single scientific and ethical review of multi-centre clinical trials in publicly funded health organisations. However, State and Territory participation will be phased, with Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia leading the way.  Other jurisdictions will join when their systems are in place.

This resource is to complement your learning, and introduce you to other perspectives on the topics under discussion. The details listed within this document are divided into 3 sections: A. Certified Reviewing Human Research Ethics Committees (HRECs) B. Participating Research Governance Offices (RGOs) C. Participating Organisations Within each section, details are provided separately for New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria. 

This resource is to complement your learning, and introduce you to other perspectives on the topics under discussion.

This resource is to complement your learning, and introduce you to other perspectives on the topics under discussion. The Online Forms website is an online system that enables users to complete their applications for research electronically. The website hosts a licensed copy of the NHMRC's National Ethics Application Form (NEAF), as well as the NSW Health, Qld Health, SA Health and Victorian Site Specific Assessment (SSA) Forms.

This resource is to complement your learning, and introduce you to other perspectives on the topics under discussion. Upwards of, and possibly more than 500 000 Australians experienced care in an orphanage, Home or other form of out-of-home care during the last century. The Committee considers that there has been wide scale unsafe, improper and unlawful care of children, a failure of duty of care, and serious and repeated breaches of statutory obligations. The Committee further considers that many comments in recent years by governments, churches and care providers reveal a complete lack of understanding of or acceptance of responsibility for the level of neglect, abuse and assault that occurred in their institutions. The Committee believes that governments, the Churches and agencies should issue formal statements acknowledging their role in past institutional care policies and practices and the impact this had on the lives of many care leavers. The Committee considered various reparation and redress schemes including access to civil litigation and the legal and other barriers to pursuing claims through the civil system. The Committee also considered the internal church processes for dealing with allegations of abuse and their commitment to address past grievances. To ensure that the experiences of care leavers are not lost to current and future generations, the Committee recommends that an oral history project be undertaken to collect life stories and that the Museum of Australia should consider the establishment of a permanent exhibition as part of its collection. Finally the Committee recommends that research needs to be undertaken into a number of areas including the role of institutional care in Australia's social history, the social and economic impact and cost, and interdisciplinary research into the relationship between child protection and welfare dependency. This report is not just concerned with the past, it is very much about the present and it informs the future.

This resource is to complement your learning, and introduce you to other perspectives on the topics under discussion.This web link is useful for readers who are interested to learn about the experiments into the pathogenic mechanism of yellow fever from primary resources including interviews with some of the volunteer subjects.

This resource is to complement your learning, and introduce you to other perspectives on the topics under discussion. The Nuremberg Code is an important document in the history of the ethics of medical research. The Code was formulated in August 1947, in Nuremberg, Germany. It is considered a blueprint for today's principles in order to ensure the rights of subjects in medical research.