'Relief of oppression': An organizing principle for researchers' obligations to participants in observational studies in the developing world

BackgroundA central question in the debate about exploitation in international research is whether investigators and sponsors from high-income countries (HIC) have obligations to address background conditions of injustice in the communities in which they conduct their research, beyond the healthcare and other research-related needs of participants, to aspects of their basic life circumstances.DiscussionIn this paper, we describe the Majengo …