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Editorial
. 2009 Jul;6(7):e1000119.
doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000119. Epub 2009 Jul 28.

Ethics without borders

PLoS Medicine Editors
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Editorial

Ethics without borders

PLoS Medicine Editors. PLoS Med. 2009 Jul.

Abstract

The PLoS Medicine Editors discuss the difficulties encountered by nongovernmental organizations when they conduct research, and how ethical oversight of such research needs to be rigorous, but also pragmatic.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors' individual competing interests are at http://www.plosmedicine.org/static/editorsInterests.action. PLoS is funded partly through manuscript publication charges, but the PLoS Medicine Editors are paid a fixed salary (their salary is not linked to the number of papers published in the journal). In addition, VB is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board for the Programme Descriptions section of the MSF Field Research Web site.

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