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Passive consent for passive participation?

The purpose of the Health Research Act is to promote good and ethically sound research (1). A key approach to this effect is to instruct the researchers to obtain consent from the participants. One challenge, however, is that the Act stipulates only two categories – either active consent or exemption from consent. We believe that there are good ethical reasons to commend passive consent and give it a clearer role to play.