Health education through analogies: preparation of a community for clinical trials of a vaccine against hookworm in an endemic area of Brazil.

BACKGROUND: Obtaining informed consent for clinical trials is especially challenging when working in rural, resource-limited areas, where there are often high levels of illiteracy and lack of experience with clinical research. Such an area, a remote field site in the northeastern part of the state o...

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Main Authors: Maria Flavia Gazzinelli, Lucas Lobato, Leonardo Matoso, Renato Avila, Rita de Cassia Marques, Ami Shah Brown, Rodrigo Correa-Oliveira, Jeffrey M Bethony, David J Diemert
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-01-01
Series:PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2907418?pdf=render