SOCIAL CONTROL, TRANSPARENCY, ACCOUNTABILITY AND SCIENTIFIC INTEGRITY IN MEDICAL RESEARCH
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The CEP/CONEP System, submitted to social control, is responsible for the ethical approval of research in Brazil to protect research participants. The Informed Consent Form (ICF) is the public document that enforces the protection of participants. This paper presents two cases of medical research in the Amazon region on malaria and the use of chloroquine for treating COVID-19. The participants were uninformed in the ICF on relevant aspects of the two studies, with serious health risks. For the sake of increasing transparency and social control, it is proposed that there should be mandatory publication of the ICF in studies supported by public funds, presentation of an objective summary of the study at the beginning of the ICF, publication of central elements of the protocol of clinical trials in open access Brazilian virtual platforms, and promulgation of a dedicated law to improve scientific and ethical integrity in Brazilian medical research.
