The establishment of ethical guidelines for biomedical research in Libya

Over recent decades, there has been an upsurge in professional and public interest in how biomedical research and clinical trials are conducted. This has coincided with a growing awareness of the importance of ethical considerations in research. The key ethical principles are to safeguard the rights...

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Published inLibyan journal of medicine Vol. 11; no. 1; pp. 33424 - 2
Main Authors Bugaighis, Iman, El-Howati, Asma, Elmusrati, Ahmed S. Ali, Arheiam, Arheiam
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States Taylor & Francis 01.01.2016
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Co-Action Publishing
Taylor & Francis Group
Subjects
Bioethics
Biomedical research
Biomedical Research - ethics
Biomedical Research - standards
Communication
Councils
Dental research
Dentistry
Ethics, Research
Guidelines as Topic
Human subjects
Humans
International organizations
Letter to the Editor
Libya
Medical ethics
Medical research
Oral hygiene
Public health
Researchers
Well being
Libya
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Summary:Over recent decades, there has been an upsurge in professional and public interest in how biomedical research and clinical trials are conducted. This has coincided with a growing awareness of the importance of ethical considerations in research. The key ethical principles are to safeguard the rights, well-being, and dignity of research participants, and the obligation to reflect on moral aspects of improvements in health care, science, and technology. In this regard, several ethical codes and guidelines have been developed by a number of countries and international organizations. To the best of our knowledge from anecdotal evidence, currently there are no clear ethical guidelines for biomedical research in Libya. There was, nonetheless, a decree issued by the previous Libyan Council of Ministry whereby a concept, rather than a set of guidelines, was instigated and its privilege transferred to the Ministry of Higher Education. However, we wonder if this decree, which was stated ambiguously, i.e. only the phrase biological ethics was mentioned, implemented any guidelines. Based on that, the authors aimed to create a real set of guidelines which can be adopted in biomedical research in Libya.
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ISSN:1993-2820
1819-6357
DOI:10.3402/ljm.v11.33424