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The Uganda National Council of Science and Technology has launched a revised set of national guidelines for research to protect the right of participants.
The council's Executive Secretary Peter Ndemere was quoted by state-owned New Vision on Friday as saying the guidelines are meant to protect the rights and welfares of the research participants and provide ethnical standards and procedures for the conduct of research involving humans.
They will also ensure that social and cultural sensitivities of participating communities are respected, he added.
Besides guiding social science and humanities research, they will also be applied in medical research conducted in or by public institutions, private, inter-governmental and non-government organizations (NGOs), said Ndemere.
They will also guide research conducted in a foreign country on human-biological materials collected from Uganda.
At the launch in Kampala, the minister of state of planning Omwony Ojwok said people who volunteer as research participants bear the burden of research and should be protected.
Therefore, the purpose of these guidelines is to ensure that people who volunteer as research participants also derive some benefits from the research, said Ojwok.
He added that the guidelines were not meant to make research more difficult, but to encourage researchers to be more responsible and respect the rights of participants.
"This is in order to win public support for research as well as to build the confidence of the international community in Uganda's human research protection systems," said Ojwok.
The guidelines also lay out the institutional mechanisms to guide the process, according to the National Council of Science and Technology.
Source: Xinhua
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