Human Research Ethics committees: a Colombian experience

The Committees of Ethics of Investigation in Humans (CEIH) that applies the international standards in the ethical evaluation of investigation projects is an indispensable resource to guarantee the ethical integrity of the investigation in humans and is essential for the development of the capacity of answer from a country to the necessity to generate knowledge. According to the observed thing in other Latin American countries, the impression that is had the speed of the scientific advances in the field of biomedical sciences has not happened compares with similar advances in the field of the bioethics and the ethics of the investigation. Is urgent that in Colombia be elaborated national guides of ethics of investigation based on international standards, enables to the members of CEIH, supports the creation of new CIEH and promotes the importance of the ethical integrity of the investigation in humans.