This week’s Nature includes a letter from several Yale students who drew media attention to ethical problems with a Hepatitis E vaccine trial in Nepal. The project that group was working on in Nepal while this was taking place was partially funded by UAEM.

You can read the Nature letter here.

For more background information, see:

• Andrews, Jason. “Research in the Ranks: Vulnerable Subjects, Coercible Collaboration, and the Hepatitis E Vaccine Trial in Nepal”. Perspectives in Biology and Medicine - Volume 49, Number 1, Winter 2006, pp. 35-51.
• Andrew, Jack. GSK is criticised for army drug test. Financial Times, accessed March 1 2006.
• Nepal questions US Army vaccine experiments. ISN Security Watch.