In representing these findings, what ethical considerations might you have in terms of harms to the community

In representing these findings, what ethical considerations might you have in terms of harms to the community? What are potential benefits to the community that may come from these results?  Who should represent these findings and how should they be represented and disseminated?

Data for this exercise comes from The Secret Epidemic by J. Levenson; the partnership itself is fictional.*** Read Below

A community-academic partnership has formed to conduct research on the relationship between the crack cocaine epidemic and the spread of sexually transmitted infections, particularly HIV/AIDS, in an urban African-American neighborhood.

Partnership members include: university researchers, local health department representatives, substance abuse treatment providers, a neighborhood coalition, and recovering addicts from local neighborhoods.

The research team (members of the partnership) conducted focus groups with African-American female crack users currently in treatment. The findings include:

There is an overall environment of:

Lack of job opportunities

Drugs

Violence

Women and girls turn to prostitution and crack cocaine use

Widespread depression

Women often have unprotected sex with multiple partners in a single day to buy crack and feed their addiction

Girls as young as 13 years-old perform oral sex in hallways for $3

Changes in the urban environment have placed greater stressors on families:

Lack of adequate affordable housing

Families split up to find places to live

Some end up living in cheap, temporary hotels  

In representing these findings, what ethical considerations might you have in terms of harms to the community? What are potential benefits to the community that may come from these results?  Who should represent these findings and how should they be represented and disseminated?

Data for this exercise comes from The Secret Epidemic by J. Levenson; the partnership itself is fictional.***