The Role of Medical-Scientific Research Ethical Commissions in the Protection of Human Rights in Azerbaijan

After gaining independence, the Republic of Azerbaijan has been carrying out a series of reforms to bring the Soviet sosialist economic, political, legal and administrative system in line with advanced world standards, reconstruction and modern scientific bases, creating a legislative framework for all these processes. The policy of transition from a totalitarian system to a democratic system, creating the foundations of a socially oriented market economy, ensuring social protection and protection of human rights, achieving serious national and spiritual unity had to go through difficult stages and be subjected to pressure from various political forces. In our opinion, the most difficult area in the implementation of social policy, which should provide everyone and everyone, is closely linked with the protection of public health, social protection and the creation of decent living conditions. Today, the world's best practices are being studied, the positive traditions formed over the years are being preserved, new technologies and management models are being tested, improved and applied to the new environment. At present, Azerbaijan is in the process of establishing ethical commissions for medical and scientific research to protect and ensure human rights, especially for patients rights. They need to be developed and a number of measures taken to ensure the sustainability of their work. The main directions of the initial steps are to develop a strategic plan for the establishment and organization of ethical commissions in the country to ensure sustainable and systematic activities, to conduct a needs analysis with the participation of experts in the field of scientific research, researchers and members of the ethics commission. Providing trainings in accordance with the results of needs analysis, as well as training of trainers, preparation of scientific literature and materials, formation of methodological aids, increase of knowledge and skills of officials working in the field of ethics commissions, establishment of civil society institutions in the field of bioethics, public awareness there is a need to increase. We hope that the activities and efforts of Azerbaijani health workers and lawyers in the field of bioethics, deontology, medical law and ethics will contribute to serious reforms in medicine and health in the country.