Protection of the Research Participants in the Developing Countries: A Personal Concern

Document Type : Original Article

Author

Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, School of Medicine, Suez Canal University

Abstract

The protection of the study participants is a corner stone of any research-involving human. There are many international ethical codes and guidelines as the Declaration of Helsinki, the Federal Regulations, the guidelines prepared by the Council for the International Organizations of Medical Sciences (CIOMS) and the Islamic Organizations for Medical Sciences (IOMS). All these guidelines indicate how the ethical principles should guide the conduct of biomedical research involving human participants