Pugwash Workshop: Ethical Dimensions of HIV/AIDS in Developing Countries

3rd Pugwash Workshop
Science, Ethics and Society SES 2005

Ethical Dimensions of HIV/AIDS in Developing Countries
29 September - 2 October 2005, Ajaccio, Corsica, France

Provisional Agenda

1. Reach and contents of ethics

In research: research design, research protocol, clinical trials, vaccine
In clinical applications: testing
In treatment

2. Ethical implications of treatment versus prevention-led strategies; ethical issues about ART in particular

3. Ethical issues in opportunity/cost choice between AIDS and other threats to health

4. The social ethical problems of making political decisions in combatting long wave pandemics

5. Role of religion and ethics in the prevention and control of the epidemics

6. Nature and role of scientific/social/ethical international/national/local institutions/organisms/NGOs/associations/committees

7. Ethics of information/communication between scientists, pharmaceutical industry/business, policy makers and public

8. Role/action of Pugwash