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Third Session on Bioethics in West and Central Africa

Project Number 104879Start Date 2007/11/15Program Area/Group PRES | REG-RAF
Area Under StudySub-Saharan Africa | West Africa
Project TypeResearch Support Project
Project Sub-TypeSeminar
Project StatusClosed
Administrative UnitWARO
Regional Office AreaWARO
Responsible OfficerButare, Innocent
ODA SectorHuman Rights Monitoring & Education
Canadian CollaborationNo
  
Duration (months)12
Extension (months)0
Project Completion Date2008/06/05
Legal Close Date2008/06/10
  
Total Funding14700
  

Abstract

The third session on bioethics in West and Central Africa will take place in Lomé, Togo, 6-8 December 2007. The theme of the session is, Evaluation and Management of Risks in Africa : Ethics, Health and Environment. The objective of the third session is to contribute to the appropriation of the principles and procedures of bioethics, particularly those relative to biotechnology and biomedical research in a context of globalization of biomedical advances and their associated technologies. The event will also provide an occasion for the constitutive general assembly of a forum aimed at establishing a continuous program of activities pertaining to bioethics.

Recipient Institution(s)

Sénégal. Ministère de la santé
Institution TypeGovernmental
Geographic ScopeNon Available
UN OrganizationNo
Component Number001
Research StatusClosed
Institution CountrySenegal
Researcher NameProfesseur Oumar Faye
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