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BioMed Central | Full text | Enrolling adolescents in HIV vaccine trials: Reflections on legal complexities from South ... (5688 words) |
 | South Africa is likely to be the first country in the world to host an adolescent HIV vaccine trial. |
| These complexities are not unique to South Africa because in many jurisdictions where such trials may occur adolescent participants will have limited legal capacity, and the enrolment of adolescents must take account of local laws dealing with, for e.g., the age of lawful consent to sex and obligations on certain adults to report abuse. |
| In South Africa, for adolescent trials to be lawful, consent must given by a participant with legal capacity to consent, or if not competent, by a person with the authority to consent on the participant's behalf. |
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South Africa - LoveToKnow 1911 (16235 words) |
| As a geographical unit South Africa is usually held to be that part of the continent south of the middle course of the Zambezi. |
| In 1909 the value of the imports into British South Africa was returned at £29,842,000; the value of the exports at £51,151,000.3 Of the imports over £16,850,000 came from the United Kingdom, over £2,240,000 from Australia, £2,450,000 from Germany, and £2,195,000 from the United States. |
| The languages spoken in South Africa by the inhabitants of European descent are English and Dutch, the latter chiefly in the form of a patois colloquially known as the Taal. |
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