What are the ethical implications of HIV/AIDS testing and research on Chimpanzees?
A. New evidence indicates that the technology and the communication of the chimpanzee community meets the definition of culture. We also know that chimpanzee’s cognitive capacities are very similar to our own, both intellectually and emotionally. By any reasonable definition chimpanzees should be categorized as a people. For these reasons it would be unethical to do invasive research on captive or free-living individuals if the same standards and protections are not used for human experimentation are not used with chimpanzees.
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