Category: HIV drug testing
Full title: "No Secrets: Understanding and Resolving Community Distrust in Government-Sponsored Medical Research"
Award: National Educational Media Network's Bronze Apple Award
This video was created by the Substance Abuse Research Unit at the University of Pennsylvania's VA Medical Center, as part of an ongoing project about HIV-preventive vaccine testing. In order to test the vaccines, the participation of members of three communities hard-hit by the AIDS virus - gay men, African Americans and intravenous drug-users - is critical, yet researchers often approach these communities without any understanding of their attitudes and fears, and the reasons for the history of distrust of government-sponsored medical research.
This video, by interviewing members of the three communities needed to test HIV-preventive vaccines about their feelings about medical research, attempts to further explain that distrust to educate the scientists who want to work with those communities.
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