Institutional review board

All biomedical research involving human subjects has to comply with established international guidelines that require ethical and scientific review of the research, alongside informed consent. This book sets out operational guidelines for ethics committees in order to facilitate, support, and ensure quality of the ethical review of biomedical research in all countries around the world.

Speech by Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang at the Launch of: (I) The Ethics Guidelines' Ethics in Health Research: Principles, Structures and Processes and (II) The Guidelines on Ethics for Medical Research: HIV Preventive Vaccine Research (MRC Book 5).

CLOSING DATE: 30^TH SEPTEMBER 2009

Job Description: Study-Coordinator

Reports to: Clinic Manager

The Clinic Coordinator is a registered nurse who provides day-to-day clinical skills for HIV related studies, including, coordinating study personnel and patients and data collection. The research is required to be carried out at various sites based at different clinics. The position is for a confident individual with excellent communication skills, who has the ability to coordinate work with a range of health professionals in a highly stressful environment.

Closing Date: 30th September 2009

NDLELA HIV RESEARCH AND CLINICAL TRAILS UNIT a division of the Wits Health Consortium (Pty) Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of the University of the Witwatersrand, is seeking a suitably qualified person to fill the following position based at Agincourt, just outside of Bushbuck Ridge: