Core - Ethics

Abstract

Understanding and resolving ethical dilemmas are integral to the mission of CAPS. Maintaining the integrity and quality of research ensures public trust in AIDS prevention research. The Ethnics Core provides consultation and technical assistance to CAPS scientists on ethical and legal dilemmas pertinent to their research. This is accomplished through: . Individual consultation with scientists and trainees. . Seminars to help scientists identify, understand, and resolve pertinent ethical, legal, and policy issues. . Helping community-based organizations resolve ethical issues in their research. The Ethnics Core also caries out research projects on selected ethical issues important to the HIV epidemic and plans to analyze; . Guidelines for consent to HIV testing and confidentiality of hIV test results. . Dilemmas in conducting HIV prevention research with adolescents. . Proposals to legalize or prohibit physician-assisted suicide. . Limitations on health-care benefit for persons with HIV infection. . Ethical issues regarding clinical trials of preventive HIV vaccines in the United States. Working within a Center helps the Ethnics Core and other CAPS scientists form mutually beneficial collaborations. It is more efficient for scientists to turn to the Ethnics Core for technical assistance and consultation on ethical issues than for each scientist to obtain such assistance independently. Working closely with scientists carrying out innovative research helps the Ethics Core focus on finding timely, practical solutions to real-life ethical controversies.

Funding Agency

• Agency: National Institute of Health (NIH)
• Institute: National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
• Type: Specialized Center (P50)
• Project #: 5P50MH042459-12S1
• Application #: 2832941
• Budget Start: 1997-10-01
• Budget End: 1998-09-30
• Support Year: 12
• Fiscal Year: 1998

Institution

• Name: University of California San Francisco
• DUNS #: 073133571
• City: San Francisco
• State: CA
• Country: United States
• Zip Code: 94143

Publications

Behrends, Czarina N; Li, Chin-Shang; Gibson, David R (2017) Decreased Odds of Injection Risk Behavior Associated With Direct Versus Indirect Use of Syringe Exchange: Evidence From Two California Cities. Subst Use Misuse 52:1151-1159

Dolcini, M Margaret; Catania, Joseph A; Harper, Gary W et al. (2013) Norms governing urban African American adolescents' sexual and substance-using behavior. J Adolesc 36:31-43

Bhattacharya, Gauri (2011) Global contexts, social capital, and acculturative stress: experiences of Indian immigrant men in New York City. J Immigr Minor Health 13:756-65

Bowleg, Lisa; Valera, Pamela; Teti, Michelle et al. (2010) Silences, gestures, and words: nonverbal and verbal communication about HIV/AIDS and condom use in black heterosexual relationships. Health Commun 25:80-90

White, Douglas B; Malvar, Grace; Karr, Jennifer et al. (2010) Expanding the paradigm of the physician's role in surrogate decision-making: an empirically derived framework. Crit Care Med 38:743-50

Gibson, David R; Zhang, Guili; Cassady, Diana et al. (2010) Effectiveness of HIV prevention social marketing with injecting drug users. Am J Public Health 100:1828-30

Dolcini, M Margaret; Grinstead Reznick, Olga A; Marin, Barbara V (2009) Investments in the future of behavioral science: the University of California, San Francisco, Visiting Professors Program. Am J Public Health 99 Suppl 1:S43-7

Bhattacharya, Gauri (2008) Acculturating Indian immigrant men in New York City: applying the social capital construct to understand their experiences and health. J Immigr Minor Health 10:91-101

Sucupira, Maria Cecilia Araripe; Caseiro, Marcos Montani; Alves, Katia et al. (2007) High levels of primary antiretroviral resistance genotypic mutations and B/F recombinants in Santos, Brazil. AIDS Patient Care STDS 21:116-28

White, Douglas B; Curtis, J Randall; Wolf, Leslie E et al. (2007) Life support for patients without a surrogate decision maker: who decides? Ann Intern Med 147:34-40