<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div>From: <b class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Sarojini N.</b> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:sarojinipr@gmail.com">sarojinipr@gmail.com</a>></span></div><div dir="ltr"><font size="4" face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif" color="#000000"><span style="text-align:justify"> "</span>Pregnancy and Covid vaccine trials: Gender justice compromised" has been recently published in Indian Journal for Medical Ethics. <br></font><div><font size="4" face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif" color="#000000">Sarojini</font></div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:#000000"><span style="color:rgb(17,16,16);font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;font-size:18px;text-align:justify"><br></span></div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:#000000"><span style="color:rgb(17,16,16);font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;font-size:18px;text-align:justify">Given the scale of the Covid-19 pandemic and to avoid further human costs, a public health obligation exists to include pregnant women in therapeutic and vaccine trials for appropriate prevention and care...</span><span style="color:rgb(17,16,16);font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;font-size:18px;text-align:justify">The exclusion of pregnant and lactating women from clinical trials, and subsequently from policymaking is not just a result of logistical limitations, it is indicative of systemic gender blindness among the scientific community and inadequate attention paid to ethics and reproductive rights. After all, the challenges neither were, nor are, insurmountable.</span><span style="color:rgb(17,16,16);font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;font-size:18px;text-align:justify"> </span></div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:#000000"><h3 style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0.5rem;font-weight:500;line-height:1.2;font-size:1.75rem;color:rgb(17,16,16);font-family:Roboto,sans-serif">Pregnancy and Covid vaccine trials: Gender justice compromised</h3><h4 style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0.5rem;font-weight:500;line-height:1.2;font-size:1.5rem;color:rgb(17,16,16);font-family:Roboto,sans-serif">Sarojini Nadimpally</h4><span style="color:rgb(17,16,16);font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;font-size:18px">DOI: </span><a href="https://doi.org/10.20529/IJME.2021.051" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;font-size:18px;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.20529/IJME.2021.051</a><span style="color:rgb(17,16,16);font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;font-size:18px;text-align:justify"><br></span></div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:#000000"><br></div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:#000000"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><a href="https://ijme.in/articles/pregnancy-and-covid-vaccine-trials-gender-justice-compromised/?fbclid=IwAR3ckmgQFfz0IZkZctCkzlWtxqzlK-m42pDFCy0-7Zr7fdjA54RzBUcejak" target="_blank">https://ijme.in/articles/pregnancy-and-covid-vaccine-trials-gender-justice-compromised/?fbclid=IwAR3ckmgQFfz0IZkZctCkzlWtxqzlK-m42pDFCy0-7Zr7fdjA54RzBUcejak</a></span></div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:#000000"><span style="color:rgb(17,16,16);font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;font-size:18px;text-align:justify"><br></span></div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:#000000"><br></div></div>
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