How to Make Sure Your Research Centre Doesn't Get Burnt Down

From AllAfrica Blog Fri Oct 31 2014, 13:26:27

[What'sUpHIV]Crossroads in Cape Town is your classic African "tough neighbourhood". It is a shanty town - a slum. So how do you go about getting volunteers from a place like that - a place in which all authority is usually viewed with doubt and suspicion - to participate in clinical trial which involves such potentially sensitive interventions as "vaginal rings", "vaginal gels" and "vaginal microbicides"?

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