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* [[The Tuskeegee Experiment]] was started in 1932 by The U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS) and the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, under the pretense of observing the symptoms of syphilis, which was deemed incurable at the time. In Macon County, Alabama, the study was conducted, wherein 600 Black men aged 25 and above were enrolled as participants. Among them, 399 men were diagnosed with syphilis, while 201 did not have the infection. Penicillin as a syphilis treatment became widely available in 1947, however the men in the study were never provided with this option throughout the remaining 25 years of the experiment. | * [[The Tuskeegee Experiment]] was started in 1932 by The U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS) and the Tuskegee Institute in [[Alabama]], under the pretense of observing the symptoms of syphilis, which was deemed incurable at the time. In Macon County, Alabama, the study was conducted, wherein 600 Black men aged 25 and above were enrolled as participants. Among them, 399 men were diagnosed with syphilis, while 201 did not have the infection. Penicillin as a syphilis treatment became widely available in 1947, however the men in the study were never provided with this option throughout the remaining 25 years of the experiment. | ||
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- The Tuskeegee Experiment was started in 1932 by The U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS) and the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, under the pretense of observing the symptoms of syphilis, which was deemed incurable at the time. In Macon County, Alabama, the study was conducted, wherein 600 Black men aged 25 and above were enrolled as participants. Among them, 399 men were diagnosed with syphilis, while 201 did not have the infection. Penicillin as a syphilis treatment became widely available in 1947, however the men in the study were never provided with this option throughout the remaining 25 years of the experiment.
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