Indian Government Debates Field Trial, Clinical Trials

September 9, 2013 | A HPV vaccine field trial in India is under fire from the Indian government because it didn't meet clinical trial guidelines. The field trial was funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and measured how various distribution methods of HPV vaccines worked. The drugs used were the approved vaccines Gardasil and Cervarix. The research program argues that no clinical outcomes were measured; it was not a clinical trial. Nature