Abstract:
The article investigates the protection by the African regional human rights
system of participants in HIV-related human experimentation. It assesses
the scope of the protection afforded by the system, and draws upon the
jurisprudence of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights
in the communication of Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum v Zimbabwe
in order to argue that a failure on the part of African states to act
to prevent the abuse of research participants will render those states liable
for a finding by the African Commission of a violation of their obligations
under regional human rights law.
