Kristen A. Sullivan, PhD, is first author and Anne Drapkin Lyerly, MD, is corresponding author of an article that examines women鈥檚 views about contraception requirements for biomedical research participation. Both are in the Department of Social Medicine and the 黑料网 Center for Bioethics.
, is first author and聽Anne Drapkin Lyerly, MD, is corresponding author of an article titled, “Women鈥檚 views about contraception requirements for biomedical research participation,” that was published May 8 in PLOS ONE.
The article is based on 140 interviews, 70 in the U.S. and 70 in Malawi, with women either living with or at-risk for HIV, exploring their views about the practice of requiring contraception in clinical trials.聽 It argues that “contraception in research should be sensitive to actual fetal risk assessments; directed where justified at optimizing effective pregnancy prevention; responsive to women鈥檚 reproductive preferences; and made available as an ancillary benefit even where risk thresholds do not justify requirement鈥搃n order to facilitate trials that are both ethical and robustly oriented around the interests and lives of women who will participate in them.”