An Investigation on the Responsiveness of International Clinical Trials on the Gravest Needs of the Population: A look at three LMICs with a high number of international clinical trials

Abstract

The paper is a qualitative research paper done to assess whether the clinical trials carried out in low and middle-income nations like India, Brazil and Philippines were to address the gravest needs of those nations. To do so the indicators like the Years of life lost (YLL), Years of life lived with Disability (YLD) and the number of clinical trials (CT) were observed and compared with that of USA. All the informations were gathered from two online sites which being healthdata.org and clinicaltrials.gov. The data thus collected were entered and assembeled in SPSS for futher analysis after which the trend of health problems that contributed to YLL and YLD of the host nations and that of USA was studied which was one of the results and finding of this paper. The paper is mostly descriptive analysis and when the health problems exclusive to host nations were compared to the clinical trials done in those nations were compared the result showed that not many clinical trials addressed them. Whereas, when the exclusive health problems of USA was compared to the clinical trials that were done regarding the same in host nations then we saw that there were significant number of clinical trials being done in host nations for those health problems. This showed that the clinical trials were not responsive to the gravest needs of the host nations; India, Brazil and Philippines in accordance with YLL and YLD