Swasthya Adhikar Manch is a nonprofit organization in India which advocates for safety in clinical trials.
A women's branch advocated for health safety. [1]
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. [2]
The organization filed a public interest litigation in 2012 asking for government intervention. [3] 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. [4] In response, the government halted approval of new clinical trials until regulation was in place. [5]
The organization has made some progress in improving safety of clinical trials. [6]
In 2020 the organization commented that despite advances, transparency of health research information for the research participant is still not a common practice. [7]