Ethical issues in intervention studies on the prevention and management of diabetes and hypertension in sub-Saharan Africa

Elizabeth Shayo; Marie Claire Van Hout; Josephine Birungi; Anupam Garrib; Sokoine Kivuyo; Sayoki Mfinanga; Moffat J Nyrienda; Ivan Namakoola; Joseph Okebe; Kaushik Ramaiya; Max Oscar Bachmann; Walter Cullen; Jeffrey V Lazarus; Geoff Gill; Tinevimbo Shiri; Dominic Bukenya; Hazel Snell; Mastula Nanfuka; Luis E Cuevas; Meshack Shimwela; Gerald Mutungi; Joshua Musinguzi; Janneth Mghamba; Kenneth Mugisha; Shabbar Jaffar; Peter G Smith; Nelson Kaulukusi Sewankambo

doi:10.1136/bmjgh-2019-002193

Ethical issues in intervention studies on the prevention and management of diabetes and hypertension in sub-Saharan Africa

BMJ Glob Health. 2020 Jul;5(7):e002193. doi: 10.1136/bmjgh-2019-002193.

Authors

Elizabeth Shayo^#¹, Marie Claire Van Hout^#², Josephine Birungi^#³, Anupam Garrib⁴, Sokoine Kivuyo¹, Sayoki Mfinanga¹, Moffat J Nyrienda^{3

5}, Ivan Namakoola³, Joseph Okebe⁶, Kaushik Ramaiya⁷, Max Oscar Bachmann⁸, Walter Cullen⁹, Jeffrey V Lazarus^{10

11}, Geoff Gill¹², Tinevimbo Shiri⁶, Dominic Bukenya³, Hazel Snell⁶, Mastula Nanfuka¹³, Luis E Cuevas⁴, Meshack Shimwela¹⁴, Gerald Mutungi¹⁵, Joshua Musinguzi¹⁶, Janneth Mghamba¹⁷, Kenneth Mugisha¹³, Shabbar Jaffar^#¹⁸, Peter G Smith^#¹⁹, Nelson Kaulukusi Sewankambo^#²⁰

Affiliations

¹ National Institutes for Medical Research, Dar es Salaam, United Republic of Tanzania.
² Faculty of Education, Health & Community, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, Merseyside, UK.
³ MRC/UVRI & LSHTM Uganda Research Unit, Entebbe, Uganda.
⁴ Department of Clinical Sciences, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom.
⁵ Faculty of Epidemiology and Public Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
⁶ Department of International Public Health, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK.
⁷ Shree Hindu Mandal Hospital, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
⁸ Norwich Medical School, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK.
⁹ School of Medicine, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.
¹⁰ Hospital Clinic, University of Barcelona, Instituto de Salud Global de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
¹¹ CHIP, Rigshospitalet, Kobenhavn, Denmark.
¹² Emeritus Professor of International Medicine, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom.
¹³ The AIDS Support Organisation, Kampala, Uganda.
¹⁴ Temeke Hospital, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
¹⁵ Non-communicable Disease Control Programme, Ministry of Health, Kampala, Uganda.
¹⁶ AIDS Control Programme, Ministry of Health, Kampala, Uganda.
¹⁷ Department of Preventive Services, Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
¹⁸ Department of International Public Health, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK shabbar.jaffar@lstmed.ac.uk.
¹⁹ MRC Tropical Epidemiology Group, Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
²⁰ College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda.

^# Contributed equally.

No abstract available

Keywords: HIV; diabetes; hypertension; public health.

MeSH terms

Africa South of the Sahara / epidemiology
Diabetes Mellitus* / epidemiology
Diabetes Mellitus* / prevention & control
Humans
Hypertension* / epidemiology
Hypertension* / prevention & control

Grants and funding

MR/R010161/1/MRC_/Medical Research Council/United Kingdom