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Capacity Building Workshop on Ethics and Regulation of Clinical Trials in India,organized by Sama–Resource Group for Women and Health, to be held at Bhopal on December 18-19th, 2013

A similar workshop was conducted at Delhi in February, 2013. Sama has been consistently working on the issues of rights violations and ethical misconduct in clinical trials in India over the last 4 years. In recent past there have been many examples of clinical trials that have taken place that disregarded ethical aspects and participant rights.

SATHI (Pune) in collaboration with Sama (Delhi) is organizing a workshop, on ‘Promoting patients’ rights and ensuring social accountability and rationalization of care in the private medical sector’ on 25-26 October 2013 at ISI, New Delhi

As we are aware, today denial of Patients’ rights, gross overcharging, irrational, unnecessary investigations and procedures by private hospitals are on the rise. Significant social unrest is emerging due to these practices of the private medical sector, which is today largely unregulated.

Sama is organizing a two and half day workshop, The Way Ahead: Strengthening the Response of the Health Care System to Gender Based Violence, New Delhi, 27-30 November 2013

Over the past two years Sama has been involved in initiatives for developing collective, strengthened understanding / perspectives of gender based violence as a health issue and strengthening health sector response to survivors of violence, through workshops with community based organisations, networks, health workers in the states of Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, Orissa, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Delhi, Assam and others.

More on 72nd Parliamentary Standing Committee on Health and Family Welfare’s Report on the “Alleged Irregularities in the Conduct of Studies Using Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) Vaccine by PATH in India”

More on 72nd Parliamentary Standing Committee on Health and Family Welfare’s Report on the “Alleged Irregularities in the Conduct of Studies Using Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) Vaccine by PATH in India”

PRESS RELEASE

We greatly appreciate and welcome the 72nd Parliamentary Standing Committee on Health and Family Welfare’s Report on the “Alleged Irregularities in the Conduct of Studies Using Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) Vaccine by PATH in India” that was presented in the Rajya Sabha and laid on the table in the Lok Sabha on30 August 2013.  Indeed it is an extraordinary report and we commend its candid, transparent contents, which reflect the Committee’s acknowledgement of the unethical nature of the HPV trials conducted in the country.

Womb service: How surrogacy still carries stigma in India

Amrit Dhillon     
Tuesday, 13 August, 2013, 10:37am

Western celebrities such as Elton John and Nicole Kidman have used surrogates to fulfil their desire for parenthood. Now with two of Bollywood's biggest stars, Shah Rukh Khan and Aamir Khan, and their wives having taken the same route, surrogacy has gained some respectability, if not a hint of trendiness, in India.

While it still carries considerable stigma in the country, the celebrities' choice has eased the way for other couples to do the same.

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