Read and consider all the discussion prompts below. Choose ONE of the bulleted items and complete your initial post.

• A state government official interested in determining the number of infants infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) has approached your hospital to participate in a statewide-funded study. The protocol will include testing of all newborns for HIV; however, the mothers will not be told the test is being done, nor will they be told the results. Using the basic ethical principles found in Box 13.2 of your LoBiondo-Wood & Haber text, defend or refute the practice. How will the findings of the proposed study be affected if the protocol is carried out?
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• As a research consumer, what kind of information related to the legal and ethical aspects of a research study would you expect to see written about in a published research study? How does that differ from the data the researcher would have to prepare for an IRB submission?
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• A randomized controlled trial (RCT) testing the effectiveness of a new Lyme disease vaccine is being conducted as a multisite RCT. There are two vaccine intervention groups, each of which is receiving a different vaccine, and one control group that is receiving a placebo. Using the information in Table 13.2 of your LoBiondo-Wood & Haber text, identify the conditions under which the RCT would be halted as a result of potential legal and ethical issues for subjects.