While Europe is refining its conce...

While Europe is refining its concede rules on clinical trials--it still awaits detailed guidelines for the European Union's clinical trials directive--it is already planning by what mode the rules should be applied to clinical trials in developing countries. The ongoing international disputation over access to treatments for AIDS in Africa triggered these reflections. Because the EU not long ago committed itself to support research into poverty-linked diseases (View from Brussels, November 2002) it recognizes the ne for about special controls on what sort of clinical trials it might find itself