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Case 37 in the Casebook on Ethical Issues in International Research discusses a multinational pharmaceutical company that plans to conduct a Phase III clinical trial of a malaria vaccine on children in an east African country. But the department of health of the host country requests that, if the vaccine is effective, then all the children in the country should receive free doses for five years. The company does not want to do this because the free vaccines would exceed their projected budget for this research. Do you think that the company has any ethical responsibility to supply the vaccine to the entire population?
For this week’s paper, I would like you to examine Case 37 in the Casebook on Ethical Issues in International Research (which can be found in the "Books" link in the column on the left). This case involves a multinational pharmaceutical company that plans to conduct a Phase III clinical trial of a malaria vaccine on children in an east African country. But the department of health of the host country requests that, if the vaccine is effective, then all the children in the country should receive free doses for five years. The company does not want to do this because the free vaccines would exceed their projected budget for this research. Do you think that the company has any ethical responsibility to supply the vaccine to the entire population? For background information, read the introductory section "Obligations to Participants and Communities" (pp. 117-123) and consider the four questions at the end of the case study on p. 127. Also, look at the other weekly assigned materials, and consider the ethical principles that I discuss in the lecture. Put another way, what principles are being defended by each side in this debate?
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