To ensure its researchers maintain the highest of ethical standards, the University of Cape Town has become the first African university to adopt the Global Code of Conduct for Research in Resource-Poor Settings. The UCT Senate explained that the adoption of the GCC was an important statement of principles and procedures in terms of research ethics to be followed by researchers from the global north, when they research in Africa or other resource-poor settings. The GCC aims to curb ‘ethics dumping’, which involves disseminating sensitive research not ethically accepted in the global north to the global south and other resource-poor settings.
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