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At iGEM we believe societal considerations should be upfront and integrated throughout the design and execution of synthetic biology projects. “Human Practices” refers to iGEM teams’ efforts to actively consider how the world affects their work and the work affects the world. Through your Human Practices activities, your team should demonstrate how you have thought carefully and creatively about whether your project is responsible and good for the world. We invite you to explore issues relating (but not limited) to the ethics, safety, security, and sustainability of your project, and to show how this exploration feeds back into your project purpose, design and execution.
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<p>For more information, please see the <a href="https://2018.igem.org/Human_Practices">Human Practices Hub</a>. There you will find:</p>
 
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<li>links to helpful <a href="https://2018.igem.org/Human_Practices/Resources">resources</a></li>
 
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<p>On this page, your team should document all of your Human Practices work and activities. You should write about the Human Practices topics you considered in your project, document any activities you conducted to explore these topics (such as engaging with experts and stakeholders), describe why you took a particular approach (including referencing any work you built upon), and explain if and how you integrated takeaways from your Human Practices work back into your project purpose, design and/or execution. </p>
 
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<p>If your team has gone above and beyond in work related to safety, then you should document this work on your Safety wiki page and provide a description and link on this page. If your team has developed education and public engagement efforts that go beyond a focus on your particular project, and for which would like to nominate your team for the Best Education and Public Engagement Special Prize, you should document this work on your Education and Education wiki page and provide a description and link here. </p>
 
 
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<p>The iGEM judges will review this page to assess whether you have met the Silver and/or Gold medal requirements based on the Integrated Human Practices criteria listed below. If you nominate your team for the <a href="https://2018.igem.org/Judging/Awards">Best Integrated Human Practices Special Prize</a> by filling out the corresponding field in the <a href="https://2018.igem.org/Judging/Judging_Form">judging form</a>, the judges will also review this page to consider your team for that prize.
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<p> <font size ="4">This year, as we worked on our project, we also considered what sort of effects our final diagnostic product would have besides on the horseshoe crab population. Upon further research, we discovered a few different assays that worked in a similar fashion to ours, however, most of the assays use equipment that is both expensive and highly-inaccessible. We decided to make our assay a simple, user-friendly tool in order to increase its accessibility. Once we completed this, we wondered how it would affect and if it would even be applicable to our larger society. We decided to contact the Ugandan iGEM team to learn if our diagnostic tool would provide a useful additional tool in regions that don't have the same access to resources in order to provide the best of healthcare, and if having an easy diagnostic tool would reduce the cost of the importation of the endotoxin test.</font></p>
  
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<p><font size = "3"> The following questionnaire was prepared by Bio Without Borders concerning their project and sent to iGEM Makerere University Team to help collect data concerning the questions provided in. The questionnaire was presented to field veterinary practitioners among them there is a professor of Pathology and these were their answers concerning the questionnaire.
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<p>Convince the judges you have thought carefully and creatively about whether your work is responsible and good for the world. Document how you have investigated these issues and engaged with your relevant communities, why you chose this approach, and what you have learned. Please note that surveys will not fulfill this criteria unless you follow scientifically valid methods. </p>
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Question.1. Do you use injectable drugs in your medical Practice?<br>
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<p>To compete for the Best Integrated Human Practices prize, please describe your work on this page and also fill out the description on the judging form. </p>
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<p>How does your project affect society and how does society influence the direction of your project? How might ethical considerations and stakeholder input guide your project purpose and design and the experiments you conduct in the lab? How does this feedback enter into the process of your work all through the iGEM competition? Document a thoughtful and creative approach to exploring these questions and how your project evolved in the process to compete for this award!</p>
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Latest revision as of 22:11, 17 October 2018

Human Practices



This year, as we worked on our project, we also considered what sort of effects our final diagnostic product would have besides on the horseshoe crab population. Upon further research, we discovered a few different assays that worked in a similar fashion to ours, however, most of the assays use equipment that is both expensive and highly-inaccessible. We decided to make our assay a simple, user-friendly tool in order to increase its accessibility. Once we completed this, we wondered how it would affect and if it would even be applicable to our larger society. We decided to contact the Ugandan iGEM team to learn if our diagnostic tool would provide a useful additional tool in regions that don't have the same access to resources in order to provide the best of healthcare, and if having an easy diagnostic tool would reduce the cost of the importation of the endotoxin test.


The following questionnaire was prepared by Bio Without Borders concerning their project and sent to iGEM Makerere University Team to help collect data concerning the questions provided in. The questionnaire was presented to field veterinary practitioners among them there is a professor of Pathology and these were their answers concerning the questionnaire.

Question.1. Do you use injectable drugs in your medical Practice?
YES.

Question 2. Are the injectable drugs/ medicine sourced locally in Africa or imported from other areas of the world?
Imported and locally sourced.

Question 3. Have you ever had a problem with an injectable that was contaminated?
Not sure.

Question 4. Would a simple and inexpensive quality control test for endotoxin contamination in injectable formulations be useful either for your practice or for enabling the manufacturing of injectable drugs locally?
YES. Since we are not sure if these injectable drugs are always contaminated with endotoxins or not it will be a good idea to test them to enable us have a better stand and better the lives of animals and people.

Prepared by. iGEM Makerere University Team 2018.