BHIVA competing interest disclosure form (BHIVA guidelines)
This form is for submissions to BHIVA of competing interest disclosures. If you have any queries, please contact the Secretariat at [email protected].
Requirements for declaration
BHIVA requires that all members of BHIVA guideline writing groups as well as any expert external peer reviewers and literature searchers must declare all interests and membership of other committees. Declaration is required to be made prior to the commencement of service on the relevant guideline writing group retrospectively for the 12 months preceding the beginning of membership of the guideline writing group. All members of guideline writing groups must undertake a declaration of interests prior to serving on a writing group and this declaration is confirmed and repeated on the publication of the completed guideline. This form will be retained by the Guidelines Coordinator and the Secretariat, and the details will be made available for publication.
Please report all relationships with pharmaceutical, diagnostic or similar companies involved in HIV-related products, or other products relevant to the guideline you are working on, during the period required by BHIVA. For the purposes of this disclosure, the term ‘member’ includes the writing group member and any spouse/partner/family member.
If any positive responses are given in the sections below, please provide further information. Chairs of guidelines writing groups must be free of specific conflicts of interest relating to the topic of the guideline.
If undisclosed competing interest is later proven, the writing group will follow Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) guidelines.
Please complete all sections of this form. If there is nothing to disclose in any section, please indicate ‘£0’ or ‘none’.