Understanding structural inequities in Covid-19 vaccine access and uptake among disability, transgender and gender-diverse communities in India.

Introduction: Undervaccination and vaccination-related anxieties among marginalised communities like the transgender and gender-diverse (TGD) and disability communities are underexplored in the Indian context. Our study seeks to understand the role of structural and historical inequities in shaping COVID-19 vaccine access for the two communities in India.

Methods: Using a participatory qualitative research approach, TGD and disabled individuals were involved in and consulted throughout the research process.

COVID-19 Vaccine decision-making: trust among the transgender and disability communities in India.

Background: Historical marginalisation and ongoing trust deficits in health and government systems shape present-day vaccine perceptions among marginalised communities. This paper sought to understand the role of trust in decision-making about COVID-19 vaccine uptake in the transgender and disability communities in India.

Methods: Using a participatory approach we interviewed 24 community representatives, identifying themselves as transgender individuals or as persons with disability, and 21 key informants such as vaccine programme managers, vaccine providers, and community advocates.

Law Commission of India report on the age of consent: Denying justice and autonomy to adolescents.

The 22nd Law Commission of India (henceforth, the Commission) [1], in its recent 283rd report, offered its recommendation on the question of age of consent (AoC) to sexual activity. Two High Courts which have seen several cases of non-exploitative consensual sex involving adolescent girls, filed by the police under "sexual assault", had referred this issue to the Commission. The substantive matter before the Commission was whether to lower the AoC to prevent unnecessary prosecutions and resolve the contradictions in sexual violence laws.

Bringing solidarity, justice and equity to the centre of the bioethics discourse: Overview of proceedings of the joint 14th World Congress of Bioethics and the 7th National Bioethics Conference, 2018.

Forum for Medical Ethics Society (FMES), Mumbai; St. John's National Academy of Health Sciences (SJNAHS), Bengaluru; Society for Community Health Awareness Research and Action (SOCHARA,) Bengaluru and SAMA Resource Group for Women and Health, New Delhi co-hosted the joint 14th World Congress of Bioethics (WCB) and the 7th National Bioethics Conference (NBC) in Bengaluru. The theme of the Congress was, "Health for all in an unequal world: Obligations of Global Bioethics".

Research ethics review in humanitarian contexts: the experience of the independent ethics review board of Médecins Sans Frontières.

Doris Schopper and colleagues describe the functioning of the Médecins Sans Frontières independent ethics review board and the framework used for ethics review, and discuss challenging ethical issues encountered by the board since its inception.