Health education through analogies: preparation of a community for clinical trials of a vaccine against hookworm in an endemic area of Brazil.

• Main Authors: Maria Flavia Gazzinelli (Author), Lucas Lobato (Author), Leonardo Matoso (Author), Renato Avila (Author), Rita de Cassia Marques (Author), Ami Shah Brown (Author), Rodrigo Correa-Oliveira (Author), Jeffrey M Bethony (Author), David J Diemert (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BACKGROUND: Obtaining informed consent for clinical trials is especially challenging when working in rural, resource-limited areas, where there are often high levels of illiteracy and lack of experience with clinical research. Such an area, a remote field site in the northeastern part of the state o...