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'''Swasthya Adhikar Manch''' is a nonprofit organization in India which advocates for safety in clinical trials.

A women's branch advocated for health safety.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Balestra |first1=Giulietta Luul |last2=Dasgupta |first2=Jashodhara |last3=Sandhya |first3=Yatirajula Kanaka |last4=Mannell |first4=Jenevieve |title=Developing political capabilities with Community-Based Monitoring for health accountability: The case of the Mahila Swasthya Adhikar Manch |journal=Global Public Health |date=2 December 2018 |volume=13 |issue=12 |pages=1853–1864 |doi=10.1080/17441692.2018.1464586|pmid=29671373 |s2cid=5001036 |url=https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10047885/ }}</ref>

Amulya Nidhi has said that pharma companies wish to avoid all regulation of their research, and because of this, people have to advocate for themselves.<ref>{{cite web |author1=GOI Monitor Desk |title=Pharma companies don't want any regulation |url=https://www.goimonitor.com/story/pharma-companies-dont-want-any-regulation |website=Goi Monitor |language=en |date=3 January 2015}}</ref>

The organization filed a [[Public interest litigation in India|public interest litigation]] in 2012 asking for government intervention.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Shelar |first1=Jyoti |title=After a lull of five years, clinical trials on the rise in India |url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/after-a-lull-of-five-years-clinical-trials-on-the-rise-in-india/article24069487.ece |website=The Hindu |language=en-IN |date=2 June 2018}}</ref> That petition became ''[[Swasthya Adhikar Manch v. Union of India]]'', a court case. The [[Supreme Court of India]] sided with the organization in 2013 on a case about clinical trial safety.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Kay |first1=M. |title=Indian Supreme Court demands clarity on clinical trial approvals |journal=BMJ |date=3 July 2014 |volume=349 |issue=jul03 13 |pages=g4383 |doi=10.1136/bmj.g4383|pmid=24994706 |s2cid=37807701 }}</ref> In response, the government halted approval of new clinical trials until regulation was in place.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Bagcchi |first1=S. |title=Indian Supreme Court halts approval of new clinical trials until regulatory framework is set up |journal=BMJ |date=4 October 2013 |volume=347 |issue=oct04 2 |pages=f5996 |doi=10.1136/bmj.f5996|pmid=24097130 |s2cid=43077030 }}</ref>

The organization has made some progress in improving safety of clinical trials.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Srinivasan |first1=Sandhya |title=Trials and tribulations |url=https://www.himalmag.com/ethics-of-clinical-trials-india/ |website=[[Himal Southasian]] |date=17 April 2016}}</ref>

In 2020 the organization commented that despite advances, transparency of health research information for the research participant is still not a common practice.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Datta |first1=PT Jyothi |title=It has been a defining decade for clinical trials |url=https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/specials/pulse/it-has-been-a-defining-decade-for-clinical-trials/article30587844.ece# |website=[[Business Line]] |language=en |date=17 January 2020}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*{{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150507092946/http://www.unethicalclinicaltrial.org/ |date=7 May 2015}}

[[Category:Non-profit organisations based in India]]

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